Sexual Abuse
Why Do I Struggle with Sexual Intimacy?
There’s another way your abuse could be impacting you and that’s in your enjoyment and desire for sex with your spouse. In addition to the ways sexual abuse damages our bodies, spirits and emotions, sexual abuse also damages our view of sex. When we’ve been used for others’ sexual pleasure the experience becomes associated with a negative...
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How Do I Know if I Need Healing? Sometimes we can feel a certain way for so long that...
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Past Abuse: Why do I feel this way? Perhaps you’ve been struggling for years with feelings that you can’t...
Sexual abuse has a broader definition than we may assume. There are four types of sexual abuse: verbal, visual, physical and psychological. Verbal sexual abuse includes sexual threats, sexual comments about your body, lewd or suggestive comments and inappropriate sexual conversations with children. Visual sexual abuse includes exposure to pornographic,...
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Rough estimates put one in three girls and one in six boys in the US at risk for being sexually abused. But exact figures are hard to assess because most children delay reporting their abuse until later in adulthood or never report it at all. Many of the women I’ve led through healing were not believed when they did report it, or worse, they were...
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Sexual issues can be overwhelming. Many people think sex is supposed to “be natural and just be wonderful, always”. In reality it is complex and takes two people to work together to love, accept and enjoy each other. In response, FamilyLife has put together answers for the many questions we hear. The following collection will be helpful...
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