Both girls told me that they were tricked only because their boyfriends were older and they trusted their “judgment” but they realized later that the men used this maturity to manipulate the girls into getting pregnant.
Eighteen-year-old Kristina was physically abused by her older boyfriend. She told me that she felt like her former boyfriend duped her into thinking she was love with him, and that his physical and sexual abuse were signs of love from him. Looking back, she was angry: “How does anybody at age 123 know they’re in love ? He nailed it into me that I was in love with him. He gave me all these things. He took out dinner. He told me this is what it means to be in love.” Later, she told me what else her 18-year-old boyfriend did: he physically abused her during sexual intercourse to “prepare” he and “toughen her up” in case she was ever raped. Because she was not able to see past the dinners and the gifts at age 13, Kristins felt strongly that other young women would not either. Statutory rape laws, she thought, could be used to intervene in relationships like hers where the girl was too young to realize she was being abused.
Both girls told me that they were tricked only because their boyfriends were older and they trusted their “judgment” but they realized later that the men used this maturity to manipulate the girls into getting pregnant.
Eighteen-year-old Kristina was physically abused by her older boyfriend. She told me that she felt like her former boyfriend duped her into thinking she was love with him, and that his physical and sexual abuse were signs of love from him. Looking back, she was angry: “How does anybody at age 123 know they’re in love ? He nailed it into me that I was in love with him. He gave me all these things. He took out dinner. He told me this is what it means to be in love.” Later, she told me what else her 18-year-old boyfriend did: he physically abused her during sexual intercourse to “prepare” he and “toughen her up” in case she was ever raped. Because she was not able to see past the dinners and the gifts at age 13, Kristins felt strongly that other young women would not either. Statutory rape laws, she thought, could be used to intervene in relationships like hers where the girl was too young to realize she was being abused.
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