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Originally Posted by My kids are cool
So, I guess what I'm wondering is how relevant do you think being sexually abused is in a relationship? Especially if it does not affect your sex life.
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I think maybe it's a myth that being sexually abused means that you have to have some kind of sexual dysfunction. Or that if you don't have any sexual dysfunction, then you weren't impacted by the sexual abuse. Although I think it is common for survivors to be affected sexually, in my experience the effects are most easily seen to me in the context of communications with me and my H, especially how conflict is resolved, in other dynamics between us, and in the dysfunctional ways I feel about these things. So I guess I would say that I would find it relevant to disclose if I were in MC, as I would find it relevant to disclose other negative aspects of my family growing up.
But I still think that whether you disclose or how you disclose or how much you disclose is really up to you, even if you think it's relevant. It is one thing to talk about your stuff with your own T, and another to discuss it with your H and another counselor.