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Old Nov 12, 2015, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jd142 View Post
No, and I asked about that as well when we were dating. She just blamed their fights on sex, but that certainly wasn't all they fought about since they were political opposites. She thought of herself as a failure and blamed her anxieties about pregnancy for it.
You said in your first post that she said they fought because he was pressuring her to have sex. He may not have sexually assaulted her but did he coerce her? Because it sounds to be that this isn't like a him/you thing like, oh she was so sexually free with him but not with you. Her hesitance that you talk about when you were first together really makes me think there's some trauma associated with sexual activity for her.

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We don't live in a society that really teaches about consent. In fact, there's a lot of disagreement about what consent is, when it needs to be given, who can give it to whom, etc. She may want to seek some counseling, if a counselor presses her on it in ways that you can't then she might find that she feels differently about it than she wants to admit.
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