"As a young teenager, my mom was sexually assaulted by her stepfather. She was able to get her hands on a weapon and fight him off, and my grandma kicked him out at gunpoint. My mom is one of six sisters, and she believes, no doubt correctly, that her stepfather targeted her mother to get access to them. Unsurprisingly for the time, my mom never got any kind of therapy."
"It wasn't hard to keep it to myself when I was dating more casually, but now that it's more serious with my boyfriend, I'm really torn on what to do. It's possible that meeting my boyfriend in person will help to put my mom's mind at ease; it's also possible that she'll have to excuse herself to cry in the bathroom for the rest of the evening."
A single mother of three teenage daughters is in a slow-moving but serious relationship and wants families to meet. The mother's teenage sexual assault by her stepfather resulted in a violent confrontation and the stepfather's removal, and the mother never received therapy. The mother fears that dating could expose the daughters to a predator, which led the daughter to withhold that part of her life. The daughter is torn between telling her mother directly or having her father inform her. Honesty is recommended so the mother does not learn later or from someone who assumes she already knows.
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