I am no expert but you did not have an affair, first of all, with that youth counselors. 13 year olds do not have affairs with adults - they are sexually molested (raped) by adults. It doesn't matter if you liked it at the time or not... it was rape. No normal adult would consider starting any sort of sexual or emotional relationship of that nature with a child as that A&*()hole did.
So what do I think of the rest? First, you got some closeness, which you craved, from the sexual relations. But you are chosing men who you know up front you cannot have, which protects you from being abandoned by them later. You know you can't have them, get a quick fix of intimacy, and you can tell yourself you didn't loose them because they were never yours.
You need to get some counseling, and as for the depression - there's no reason to go around depressed today. There are so many good medications that can take the edge off so that you can have the energy and right brain chemstry in place to work through the rest.
Get some counseling - rape counseling for the incident when you were a child, and you can also go through how that has woven through your other life experiences, and the breakup when you were a teenager.
And set a rule for yourself. No matter how lonely you are or how attractive you are, think of the heart of the person who is married to these men and the lack of decency on their part if they are willing to have sex with you, or even to flirt with you. Do you want a man who would cheat on his wife or girlfriend? That's the lowest form of man... you can do better.
You need to learn to be happy alone, raise your standards and self image, work through past feelings and experiences, and then you can find a guy your own age who is free to love you completely. It's a risk, but we all go through heartbreak in life and if we learn to manage it, we can grow from it and bring all that we learn into the ultimate right relationship.
God bless!
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