You just take whatever time you need, at whatever pace you need, to build trust with a new partner or potential partner. Being assaulted of course impacts how we trust people and makes it more difficult to trust, especially when you were assaulted by people who you trusted, who those around you...
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- Heather Corinna
Elydia: I'm so sorry you're having to go through this with so little support. Being pregnant can be scary enough for anyone, even when it's wanted, but it's even more overwhelming when you're going it alone. First of all, understand that NO ONE can force you to abort, or make your reproductive...
- Heather Corinna
Clarisse: the very first thing I want to say, and want you to try hard to hear, is that you are not abnormal, nor are you some kind of basket case. You're simply someone healing from a serious injury. With at least one out of every four women being raped or sexually abused at some point in your...
- Heather Corinna
I don't know of anyone who would think that they needed to guard their drink from someone they thought of as a best friend. I sure wouldn't. There's just no sound reason, at all, for you to think that for some reason, you should have thought to do something that pretty much no one on earth would...
- Heather Corinna
Let's do what we can to work this out, okay? I know it's tough -- especially if you're also dealing with trauma in your family -- and it's scary, but it really is workable. I don't know what you mean when you say you're always careful, but there are currently -- sparing men or women who get...
- Heather Corinna
Here is some basic information on what a sports physical usually requires. While breast exams are not an abnormal part of many general physicals, unless your school specified that you were to get a pelvic exam, it is not likely that a pelvic or GYN exam -- or a visual examination of your genitals --...
- Heather Corinna
Really, the why here isn't that important. What's important is the "is." In other words, you're doing things you're saying you really don't want to do. WHY you're doing them, or what might have caused you to have a hard time with making the choices you want to isn't as important as the fact THAT...
- Heather Corinna
Hey there, anon. I'm sorry you're having such a hard time right now. Without knowing what exactly your doctors had you taking, it's hard for me to fully address your question with as best an answer as I can give. However, if you haven't had any sort of period in two months, I would advise that you...
- Heather Corinna
If you have NOT gladly and freely consented to and participated in sexual activity -- if you have not in some way said a big yes and wanted to keep saying a big yes -- and someone else had sex with you anyway, that is rape. No matter what ANYONE tells you, it is not your fault. There certainly is fault, but it lies with the rapist, not the victim.