I want to tell my dad I was sexually assaulted but I’m scared.
I was sexually assaulted by two different guys as a child, once when I was about 9 or 10 and another time when I was 12. I’m now an adult and I feel I’ve been stuck in the past for all these years and there’s not a day where I don’t think about what happened to me. Well I want to heal and I feel that telling my dad and eventually my mom would help a lot because it just feels like this big, bad secret I’ve been keeping for half my life. My dad has anxiety attacks and so he understands mental health a bit. He was supportive when I went to him about the depression the sexual assault caused and he was supportive when I went to therapy for it. He’s a wonderful dad. But I’m not worried he won’t believe me or be unsupportive, I’m worried he’ll somehow blame himself. He did a great job and he did nothing wrong, I just didn’t want to go to him when it happened because he was male. I didn’t feel comfortable at the time and I was scared of the person sexually assaulting me when I was 12.
Has anyone else told their parent(s) about what happened to them? How should I go about it?
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