My brother was 15 and I was 14, we are 13 months apart. He wasn’t under the influence or anything, completely normal. I was an innocent child and to me I thought this was “normal”. At first it was just touchy feelings for awhile. But eventually, he raped me for months (even though it felt like years). All this happened in my bedroom or living room when my dad wasn’t home. He told me to keep quiet and that if I told anyone he would lie about it and would kill me and that I would ruined our family. I kept my mouth for 6 years. Years later, I started to have flashbacks of the incident and I kept saying “it’s not real, that never happened”, I was in complete in-denial, soon enough I realized what he was doing and had a complete mental breakdown at the age of 20. I finally told someone and my parents knew something was wrong, they knew something terrible happened to me but why didn’t come talk to me? why didn’t they ask me? why didn’t they take him away? Why??
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Thank you so much for sharing your story here. I wish I knew why your parents didn’t protect you. While your brother’s actions were his, it can be so hard to not be protected by your parents. I hope that now you are getting help from a therapist who can help you work through anything you’re feeling toward your parents and/or your brother. I am so proud of you for speaking out now and grateful you found this forum. You can heal from this but it will probably take a lot of time and work. BUT please know that you can do it and you deserve to do it. You are very brave for making it this far and I know you can heal. Sending you love, support, and strength.