DEAR ABBY: I am a victim of childhood sexual assault. I’m 52, and memories that I have repressed for so many years are coming back to haunt me. I have been with my husband for 14 years. We have enjoyed a very sexual relationship, but, lately, the memories are causing me to want to avoid intimacy with him. I want to tell law enforcement, but my mother is still married to my abuser, and I don’t want to hurt her. He also molested my older sister and cousin. Help me, please. — TIRED OF LIVING IN MISERY
DEAR TIRED: I am so sorry about what happened to you. I will assume that you have not received counseling to help you deal with this. If that’s the case, I urge you to seek some now. Talk with your sister and your cousin. Explain that the memories of being molested by your mother’s husband have come back in full force, and ask if they will join with you in filing a police report about what he did. If they refuse, do it alone. It may save other young women from being assaulted by him. If your mother is unaware of what happened, she deserves to know.
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