when i (female) was 10 and my cousin (male) was 15, we were at my cottage together. We were sleeping in like a bunkhouse outside of my cottage. I was always close with my cousin and we never had a weird relationship, but that night i woke up to him touching me. i didn’t know what to do because i was young and it was late at night, so i just pretended to sleep and try to move away from his hands so they couldn’t sexually touch me anymore. then he grabbed my hand a touched his d!ck with it. i pulled my hand away and then i “woke up” and asked what he was doing. he said i was being restless and way just rubbing my back, which was still weird. this happened another time, yet i still never said anything and just pretended to be asleep, after that i only slept inside my cottage from then on and made sure we wouldn’t be in the same room. this was 5 years ago and i’ve never told anyone. also if anyone knows would this be considered sa, i’m not sure and i don’t wanna say it is especially if it’s not

I been thinking real hard about even relaying these awful things about the person that I have admired the most, the person I have respected and revered my whole life but that now, has completely backstabbed me in the worst way possible. A few years ago, a scandal broke in my political family involving my mother. As you can imagine, it nearly broke my marriage and tore my husband’s family apart. My sister in law found my father in law and my mom talking on social media. The worst part of it, when I was confronted, I was accused of knowing about the whole affair and made it looked like I was an accomplice to the whole ordeal. When I had absolutely no clue to such a disgusting mess. I don’t know what neither of them were trying to accomplish and now, I’m the black sheep of the family. No one talks to me. While my father in law is still loved and honored. My mother the home wrecker and I pay the sins of her ordeals. She never once has said I’m sorry. Never! In her head, I’m better off without that side of the family. But it’s not about that; why did she do this to me? Why my father in law? Among so many men? Why him! I guess I’m just looking for an explanation and I know I will never get it from her. Because she just cannot accept she did anything wrong. I wish I could get her version because as of now, I only know everyone else’s but her’s. I always thought I didn’t need to hear her side because it’s not my place to question her, but I have kids who now have to suffer for her sins as well. I don’t think it’s fair to them either. I guess the damage is done as well and the past is the past. I won’t get nothing accomplished but I just want an acknowledgment from her part that she messed up.

• August 12, 2023