I thought I would share my story with all of you in hopes that you will understand and better approach the situation then I did.
I recently met a girl who was seriously fantastic. We hit it off and I ended up asking her out to dinner after only talking to her for 2 hours, this is how well we connected. She had many things in common with me and both of us were really looking forward to seeing eachother. We planning on going out to a nice sushi place on wednesday night. (honestly I had never been able to ask out a girl this fast but I couldnt help myself)
So on day two of talking to her and seeing that she was real awesome... everything checked out we were both really excited to hangout and get to know eachother.
Somehow later in the night we got on the topic of emotional distress and she had mentioned to me in confidence that she had been raped.
While I didnt think much of this at the time, I had been polite and told her if she needed anything to let me know and all she wanted was for me to be cool with it, simple enough. So I was fine with it seeing how this girl was somewhat one in a million, it was refreshing to meet someone who I had so much in common with and was also very good looking. This was right up my ally.
So me being a aware of how dudes do crazy sh*t when they are horny. I had mentioned to her that I hate how guys have bad awareness of themselves in that the power to breed was so strong that some guys do foolish things. Somehow it had slipped my mind about her being raped, and I wasnt trying to make an insensitive comment at all.
She had understood it as me making an excuse for whoever had raped her, and that I was an insensitive prick. THIS WAS THE POINT OF NO RETURN.
After she had said this, no matter what I had said to try and pull out of this it was hopeless.
She basically cancelled our dinner plans and within a course of 10 minutes I began to feel like the biggest piece of human garbage.
So after sleeping on it for a night I realized that:
1. Its good that this happened now and not later on.
2. She doesn't know me so this is just a big misunderstanding
3. After doing research on rape victims - I realized talking about it in general triggered a whole mess of emotions that I wasnt going to be able to do anything about.
So I'm pretty bummed that this happened because I was really looking forward to possibly dating this girl, but I'm also kind of glad that didnt get involved with her. She probobly shouldnt be dating anyone before she gets some therapy(which she was in the process of doing).
I just thought I would share with you guys, if you meet someone who was the victim of rape you're probobly not going to want to stick around. Be friends and see where it goes. This girl was well adjusted and knew alot about her condition but a great thing that was happening turned out to be sort of a nightmare for me - I can only imagine what she might be feeling.
I recently met a girl who was seriously fantastic. We hit it off and I ended up asking her out to dinner after only talking to her for 2 hours, this is how well we connected. She had many things in common with me and both of us were really looking forward to seeing eachother. We planning on going out to a nice sushi place on wednesday night. (honestly I had never been able to ask out a girl this fast but I couldnt help myself)
So on day two of talking to her and seeing that she was real awesome... everything checked out we were both really excited to hangout and get to know eachother.
Somehow later in the night we got on the topic of emotional distress and she had mentioned to me in confidence that she had been raped.
While I didnt think much of this at the time, I had been polite and told her if she needed anything to let me know and all she wanted was for me to be cool with it, simple enough. So I was fine with it seeing how this girl was somewhat one in a million, it was refreshing to meet someone who I had so much in common with and was also very good looking. This was right up my ally.
So me being a aware of how dudes do crazy sh*t when they are horny. I had mentioned to her that I hate how guys have bad awareness of themselves in that the power to breed was so strong that some guys do foolish things. Somehow it had slipped my mind about her being raped, and I wasnt trying to make an insensitive comment at all.
She had understood it as me making an excuse for whoever had raped her, and that I was an insensitive prick. THIS WAS THE POINT OF NO RETURN.
After she had said this, no matter what I had said to try and pull out of this it was hopeless.
She basically cancelled our dinner plans and within a course of 10 minutes I began to feel like the biggest piece of human garbage.
So after sleeping on it for a night I realized that:
1. Its good that this happened now and not later on.
2. She doesn't know me so this is just a big misunderstanding
3. After doing research on rape victims - I realized talking about it in general triggered a whole mess of emotions that I wasnt going to be able to do anything about.
So I'm pretty bummed that this happened because I was really looking forward to possibly dating this girl, but I'm also kind of glad that didnt get involved with her. She probobly shouldnt be dating anyone before she gets some therapy(which she was in the process of doing).
I just thought I would share with you guys, if you meet someone who was the victim of rape you're probobly not going to want to stick around. Be friends and see where it goes. This girl was well adjusted and knew alot about her condition but a great thing that was happening turned out to be sort of a nightmare for me - I can only imagine what she might be feeling.