While I was getting ready for bed, this man came in and forced himself on me. We were having a small get-together with friends and family my partner wasn’t there with me that night. He assaulted me in my best friend’s home one-and-a-half years after my partner and I started dating.
I was sexually assaulted by someone I thought was my friend, someone I trusted and never in my wildest dreams thought would try to hurt me. This was a hard realization because I had always thought sexual assault was violent, and penetrative I hadn’t even realized what happened was an assault. A few years ago, when the #MeToo movement began, I had the horrific epiphany that I was sexually assaulted.
