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Stressed and anxious

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kreed95
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Location: Alabama

Stressed and anxious

Unread post by kreed95 »

So I told my fiancé today of my past. And now I'm so anxious. He understands but I didn't even go into the details of the rapes. And my mind is spending and I feel like I can't catch my breath. I hate that I didn't tell him earilier. But he wants to start getting more serious and the only memories I have of sex is horrible ones. I keep it all in my head but he wants to talk which than brings out emotions that I don't know how to deal with. I want to cry and change the subject and never talk about it. But there is going to be one day when he wants sex and I'm too afraid to even think about it. I just keep telling him I'm not ready. But truth is I'm just to terrified to even think about it
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Alice O
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Re: Stressed and anxious

Unread post by Alice O »

Hi kreed95,

I am going to reply to this and your other post in your thread "Rape and Fiance."
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