Why didn't you tell someone when it happened?

[MotorCityMan]

33. boston bean, you have me in tears here

You have beautifully summarized the feelings of ANYone who has had to deal with unwanted sexualwri advances.

I'm 52 now, but can remember in detail a very inappropriate sexual encounter with my uncle, 50, when I was 16. Teenagers today are a lot more aware of the world, back in 1980, maybe not so much. ALL your answers describe perfectly what I put myself thru after it happened. Afterwards, I still had to deal with him and his disgusting comments to me and trying to touch me. I desperately wanted to tell my parents, but was so afraid (and still believe I am right about this) that they would never believe me. The feelings of self disgust, blaming myself, it was all there. On top of that, I knew I was gay at the time, but after the incident, I spent so long telling myself, no, you're not gay, because I was so disgusted by the incident. It was the one time in my life i came close to killing myself, to the point of standing in the bathroom with a razor to my wrist. At that point I thought, "You're really going to throw your life away over HIM?" and realized there was no way I was going to do that.

I've disliked Trump since the 80's, thought of him as a self centered, egotistical jerk who was his own biggest fan. After this election season, and especially with these (probably still) ongoing revelations, I view him with a disgust that borders on absolute detestation.

Thank you for expressing in words exactly why the victims of these kind of attacks keep their mouths shut.