I instigated sex with my husband a few days after the attack
Just over a year ago, the unthinkable happened. While my husband watched Spartacus loudly in the bedroom, I went to lock the house up. After entering the kitchen, I was grabbed from behind and raped at knife point. What followed was a total chaos of police, hospitals, and disbelief: these things don’t happen in real life, this couldn’t have happened to me.
People assume that following the attack I wouldn’t want to have sex, or that it must be difficult for me to be intimate, but the truth is the total opposite. I instigated sex with my husband only a few days after the assault, while my face was still bruised, still broken. I needed to reclaim sex and my body in a loving and trusting way, and I knew that if I waited it would become more difficult.
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