Do I leave

NSFWRelationships / Dating

I want to make this as short as possible. Me and my girlfriend have been together for a year, but I don't know if I should continue this relationship anymore. I have a past of sexual abuse and trauma. She has known this even before we started dating.

In the beginning of us knowing each other it was basically me saying I'm not ready for a relationship since i haven't yet healed completely from my abusive past relationship. She still wanted to pursue the relationship with me knowing very very well that intimacy will take time for it to become completely comfortable to me and that sex is a very sensitive subject to me due to my trauma, so we have to take it slow and safe for me.

It has been too many times now that she has pushed me to do things I haven't been comfortable with or haven't wanted to do, or forcefully made me do it without consent. Every time this has happened I have brought it up again afterwards and told her that it really breaks me and my only wish was that it wouldn't happen again. Every time she has been very apologetic and told me it won't happen again. But it does.

I remember after my past sexually abusive relationship I promised myself that the one feature I won't compromise ever again in my partner is that they will love and care and respect me enough to not ever force me to do something I don't want to do, or will be patient with me if I don't always consent to everything. Now I feel like I might be in the same situation that I was in my lowest time three years ago. Am I getting the same lesson again?

I can't believe I feel this way, since the abusive relationship I got out of broke me into so many pieces, that I had to build myself for years after it, and l promised myself and God literally with my everything that I would never again get myself in such a situation, and I'd choose my coming partner very carefully, and make sure that they would not treat me in such a way.

I know that she is sorry for the instances, and she tells me she doesn't realize she is pushing/forcing me (while actively pushing me as I'm telling her no and that I feel like she's forcing me) but the way that it still happens again and again is burning me inside and I might feel like I don't deserve this treatment. Is this overreacting? We have a good thing going on, and breaking up would be quite hard with our upcoming future plans ahead.
Also sorry for bad English

Posted Jun 6, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

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