Last night (or rather very early this morning) I was sleeping at my boyfriend's place, and he put his arm around me but then kinda tried to "seduce" me (touched my breats, started to move his hand lower.) I could tell he had an erection. I jumped and moved away, and he stopped. This was about an hour before I had to be up, and I wasn't able to get back to sleep. I was sexually abused in childhood, which he knows about. Being touched in my sleep (or even in the dark, sometimes) is really triggering for me-- it'll make me anxious, scared, cause me to cry (I didn't cry this morning, but when we've had sex in the dark I've started to cry before.) He's mentioned in the past that it would turn him on to be woken up by sex/sexual activity-- I've rarely done that because it's hard for me to do that without feeling like a "molester". Earlier in the relationship (we've been together a year and a half), he started to touch me in my sleep and I asked him not to, told him it kinda freaks me out (after enduring it a couple times), and he didn't do it again (until last night)-- that was maybe 10 mos ago.
My question is, do I confront him about it? I don't know if he meant to or if he was even awake. I highly doubt he did it to intentionally hurt me but rather that he "forgot" (in some sense of the word) what I had mentioned before. I'm not scared of him per se (never been any indications of abuse or violence...never even really had a major argument), but I'm scared to confront people in general-- always afraid they are going to be mad at me and either hurt me or leave me. I second guess myself and worry that I'm making a "big deal" out of nothing. Should I wait and see if it happens again before talking about it, bring it up now, or don't bother at all?
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