my suggestion is contact law enforcement or a treatment provider (doctor, therapist, psychiatrist) in your location. reason I say this is because here in psych central you have many people from all walks of life from all countries around the world, with different cultures, religious, laws and ethics on what is and isnt abuse. for some yes what you posted is abuse for others it is not. only you and your treatment providers and law enforcement can say for sure whether something was abuse for you...
let me give you an example of something that happened in another website forum...
someone asked whether something was abuse. since the website was in america and a majority of the people on the site were american many people told this person yes thats abuse, he is abusing you, get away from that person...
well this person who was asking was of a religion where what she had posted was not abuse. this person ended up based on what she read on the other forum going against her religion and culture and ended up severely punished for it and barely survived. (this person was Amish)
another example where on another website where someone asked whether their relative was abusing them or had abused them...
everyone on the forum (primarily american) told this person yes they had been abused, yes what happened was abused. this person unknown to the other members on the website was in a country where they stone females to death) because this person was told on a forum that they were abused, this person started fighting her relative and lost her life for not following her locations laws and rules that all men are dominate over women and women must submit \do what ever the men ask and require them to do.
I dont want to accidentally cause harm or death to someone else who despite what they put in their profile may be of a different culture\religion\location/ and what have you and have to live by laws and rules that as an american I do not. therefore I never tell someone online that what they are going through or have gone through is abuse.
only they and their treatment providers and law enforcement in their own location can safely say that.
Instead I err on the side of caution and tell anyone who asks is this abuse or what is this mental disorder, what is my problem and all those questions that are better answered by their own treatment providers, to contact them.
what I can do here is tell you that in ....my....location and such this may or may not have been abuse. you see we dont know all the situation since we are not you nor were we there watching it happen. America does have a variety of cultures where kissing like you posted is ok. and cultures where it isnt.
therefore my standard suggestion remains if this continues to bother you contact your own treatment providers or law enforcement that can tell you whether what happened to you is abuse and what can be done about it.
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