14.
I was studying abroad in a different country, and a fellow student from Australia told me he had a crush on me. I wasn’t there looking to date, and turned him down, and we were friends for the rest of the semester. He left in the winter and I stayed on into the spring. Because I’d started to get uncomfortable feelings around him and the way he talked about me to other people (being in love with me, wanting to go to America for me, etc…) I cut ties once he was gone. However, in March, he came back and spent an entire week waiting in my dorm building, outside of my room, attending the classes I was supposed to be in (I was sick), and constantly harassing me via text. This eventually culminated in him trying to break into my dorm room and threatening me, all because I wasn’t comfortable spending time with someone who’d stalked me back into an entirely different country after I’d decided to stop talking to him. I never felt safe going anywhere alone after that, and even now that I’m home, I can’t help but worry that he’ll try to come here and do the same thing.
13.
He stalked me for a year and a half after I danced with him for one song in a club. Police asked him to stop, but he didn’t stop until I moved to a different country.
12.
An ex used to threaten to harm himself when I would turn down his sexual advances and those threats led me to stay with him much longer than I wanted to. After I finally broke up with him and turned down multiple requests of his to get back together he texted me a picture of him lighting a photo of me on fire and called me a “cold-hearted bitch” for refusing to get back together. Later, when he found out I was dating another guy he texted me that he was going to find the new guy and “put him in the hospital.” All of this happened when I was only 17.
11.
When I was in high school, I turned a guy down and he threatened to strangle my dog with barbed wire and leave her body on my porch.
10.
When I was in 10th grade a guy I knew from my neighborhood, and had hung out with once or twice invited me and my friend to skip a class and hang out in a back area of the school. We had done this before and not got caught so I decided to do it. My friend had a test so she couldn’t miss class. He tried to kiss me I pushed him away and told him I had a bf. He proceeded to grab me , pin me against a brick wall. and stick his hand in my pants . He ripped my underwear, my instincts kicked in and I fought til I could get out of the side door that was at the end of the hall.