Bernenda Marc

But it was—and every time, like, sexual assault was brought up in school through sex education or things like that, it was always described with not the same sex.

Right.

So male and female as far as sexual assault.

So I thought what was going on with me was normal.

Sadly, it was not until I joined the military and they had a sexual harassment and assault class.

And that's when I discovered that, yes, you can be a victim of it by the same sex.

It doesn't matter.

And that's when I was like, oh, man, like there's a deep there's a deep.

There's something happening that I didn't know was wrong.

Even though I didn't like it, I didn't like what was happening.

But that kind of drew me to the point where I no longer trusted women.

So I kind of backed away from a lot of women in my life.

And I, the majority of the time, had male friends because I felt a little bit more comfortable with men, which was insane.

I mean, wow.

I know.

So I buried that part of me because I felt as though, because women have hurt me, I shouldn't be with women.

So that's a whole roller coaster in my head going on from a young kid who's actually attracted to women to now I have to like go deeper and further in the corner in the closet.

Of course.

Well, I was actually in relationship with men.

Okay.