News of Sexual Abuse and Incest Forum

I'd like to share my story here cause I have no close friend I can share this nightmare with.
Middle of March I was snowboarding in Italy with my husband. In the middle of the day we split cause I needed to take a break, while he went on snowboarding down the slopes. We were supposed to meet after 1 hour.
I bought a drink and after a while I went down the stairs of ...

Hey everyone,

I have a pretty specific question about sexual abuse and survivorship that I want to get peoples' perspective and opinions on, and I'm not quite sure where to ask it so I wanted to try asking here. I want to start off by saying that I've done a ton of healing work around my experiences, and so I feel like I'm a place where I feel really solid knowing clearly for myself what ...

9 years ago summer time I got “involved” with an older man G. I was 13 and he was 27. He was the uncle to a boy N who I had a crush on and I would go to their house so I could be around N. G had looked after me when I was younger, while mum was at work. They lived on the same street as us and were close to my family. ...

Hey.. maybe this’ll be a long story.. probably most/some of you are familiar with “self sabotaging” behaviour, basically I’m starting to recognise this is a huge problem for me. I went through physical, sexual and I guess psychological/emotional abuse as a child which inevitably has left its mark on my life in a few different ways. I’m 23 and for a few years I was doing really quite wel, developed a hell of a lot ...

I was very violently assaulted when I was 19 years old. I've healed. I'm a stronger woman than I probably need to be as a result. I'm so angry right now, though. I spent so much time healing from the actual assault that I didn't even think about how it affected other areas of my life.

I just turned 42. I've never been married because I didn't know how to trust men. I never had ...

Hi everyone. I've looked through the site before and know you are all so brave.

I have complex ptsd and am in treatment. My PTSD is both from years of extreme abuse from my grandfather and other traumatic events. At some point, I'll probably (hopefully) be able to tell my story to you all.

I've been trying to do distress tolerance. Have literally tried anything and everything suggested by professionals. Turns out a lot of ...

Hi everyone,
As I write this, I am nervous however here is my story.
I was raised in a good family, happy childhood, and am the youngest son of three older sisters.
I am 47 years old and happily married. I would describe myself as Peter Parker from Spiderman in that I come across as a happy, well adjusted person with no external issues that people might pick up on.

The reason I am here ...

I don't even know if this goes here but.
might aswell start with context i guess?
mum and my biological dad split before i was born, never met him, then my mum had my brother, who has also never met his father, then she began a relationship with a man who then domestically abused her (i was witness to all of this) and she had my second brother with him, we had to move away ...

So, I’m going through a weird breakdown at the moment with resurfacing childhood abuse. I’d done my best to suppress things way down for a long time, I always try not to conscuously think about it - but the times where it does come up, it inevitably makes me emotional, disgusted and sick. So, my abuser is a family member and is still currently in my life... what I’ve somehow only just realised lately, is ...

I honestly don't even know where to start with this. I've never shared my story with anyone other than very close friends, family and my fiancé. I'm currently dealing with a horrible situation that I guess I never thought I would have to deal with.

As a young teenager I experienced grey area rape by one of my close family members. Just so everyone can understand the situation, the family member that did this to ...