Rape Within A Relationship

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I had sex with him so many times, consensually, sometimes out of feeling I should and a few times where I did not want to. I was in a relationship and the times I did not want to were mixed in with times of consent alongside an extremely high level of abuse which I am unpacking piece by piece. It has taken me over a year to be able to see and call those times I didn’t want to as rape. Being in a relationship made me feel I couldn’t call it…