I waited my whole life to have sex with the man I end up marrying. Instead at age 32 I was raped, by a guy I dated 6mths. Needless to say the rape ended things. But I'm finally at the point of dating again and while I'm not planning to wait for marriage, I'm terrified of having sex.

When do you tell someone you've been raped? I know I don't 'have' to tell them, but I feel I should because of the obvious issues being raped will bring up.

Have you told someone and had them run away because of it?

What are your experiences?

Any help, advice, etc will be most apprecaited.

Stoda