Sexual Assault Letters

Sexual assault can be really difficult to talk about, but talking about it may be just what we need to begin healing.

Latest Sexual Assault Letters

Dear Potential Life Partner, After I graduated college, back in 1996, I would go down to Manhattan twice a month by taking the train from the suburbs. I would go to a gay bar. I was somewhat depressed at the time being that I just finished college, and I didn't know what my place in the world wou...

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From Your Daughter, It has been a lifelong struggle for me to process your abuse. To excuse and explain away your behavior, “she’s my mother so she must be right…it’s the way her generation was raised…she has a mental illness.“ Now you’re approaching your senior years and I am supposed to be gent...

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Dear Readers Out There, This is a letter to those who don’t understand what PTSD is. I do not wish to write in my own handwriting for fear of someone seeing it and knowing who I am. That is why I am here, to share my story without fear of someone coming after me. What is PTSD? Well, it isn’t just...

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To My Darling Sweetheart, I hope this finds you in good shape. I am also fine. There is something that has weighed me down for almost 5 years now. I felt I should share it with you, my love. It is a secret that I’ve kept from everyone. It was during a summer vacation five years ago. We were campi...

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It was almost ten years ago, the same week as my 19th birthday. I'd donated blood the day before a party some classmates were having and fainted so, still feeling a little weird and weak, I'd decided not to drink at that party. I offered to DD for a friend who happily accepted. We dressed up, bec...

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To My Dearest Friend, The past four years have been very difficult for me. I have never been particularly political, but that was because I never really had a specific issue I felt would matter. I thought my view as an individual citizen was just too small to be noticed. But this time, there were...

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To An Ex-Boyfriend, Even though it has been more than a decade since we broke up, I still think about you and how awful everything turned out between us. We were very young and for a long time we were very happy and did everything together, but when I started feeling more and more like the adult ...

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XYZ Location XYZ City Dear Friend, I hope you are doing well and also living happily with your family. I am also fine. I want to share my personal feelings with you, as you are my only close friend. Last night I was walking at a nearby road and saw some of the bad reputation guys trying to ...

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Dear First Love, I wanted to apologize, so I’m doing so now. This letter that you’ll never receive, an apology for what I did. Although I should talk to you, I won’t, because, if I hurt you, you did hurt me more. However, this is not a letter about what you did or what you did not, but about y...

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Dear Person who Hurt Me, I don't know who you are and I suppose I will never know. I know you may not know how much You've changed my life and you may not even care. But I do! I'm the one who has to live with what you did! I was only a baby and you felt the need to put your disgusting hands on...

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To whom it may concern: Why did you do all of that stuff to me when I was younger? It changed me, both mentally and physically. I know I did not show it. As I was a Silent child. But you stole my childhood away, I sometimes wonder what I would have done and accomplished if you would have left me ...

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Hey...A man's anger and a woman's love is immeasurable. It took some time for me to realize that I really hurt you and I can understand, by my heart, its extent. Even at that haunted time I failed to recognize tears at the corner of your eyes, that was bursting due to my behaviour at that time. I...

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Dear First, I am so happy that you are gone, I've moved on, and have a beautiful relationship with the man of my dreams. But somehow, I'm still burdend with the question, "Why "? We were together for 3 horrible gears, and get I know I nevermet the real you, why, were you take? Why did you trick m...

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A Mon Petit Chou, Salut. J’espère que tu es heureuse. Ii vous apportera du bonheur de savoir que je suis miserable ces années sans toi, honnêtement — il a été une existence miserable. Je vois tan visage partout. Je peux sentir tes mains sur mon corps comme un fantôme. Ton odeur, aussi, Je cr...

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My Dear Uncle, I have been going through this mental dilemma for a few weeks now. I have been debating if I should confess to you or let it pass. But, I just can't carry this secret any longer as it is screwing up my piece of mind. It happened while you were out of town sometime last month. I got...

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Dear friend, I am writing to you because there are a few things I have been trying to get off my chest. I hope this letter receives you well and you do not judge what I am going to tell you. When I was younger I was sexually abused by mom's boyfriend. This has been the hardest thing to express as...

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Dear sister, I have many secrets that I keep to myself. I am not proud of them. This is why I chose not to share my secrets until now. One thing I have never told you is that I used to live in Canada. I lived there for about five years. I was chasing what I thought was love. I married a man in Ca...

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