- Date posted
- 5h
this is derailing my life
this has been irritating me for a very long time.. is my reaction warranted? or am i overreacting? i have bawled my eyes about this multiple times, i've called several hotlines in tears, and i dont know if that's normal considering this isn't on purpose. this has bothered me everyday since august. i was hanging out with my sister the other and we were playing and my hand accidentally touched her chest. it wasnt my intention at all or sexually motivated, and ive been freaking out. i pulled my hand back but didnt say anything, but mentally i was freaking out and was mortified. ive been doing things like replaying the event in my head, cuz i still cant remember how exactly it happened. i dont remember if it was before or after i was jokingly arresting her, like putting her hands behind her back as a joke. it might have happened when i was trying to grab her arm to "arrest" her but accidentally hit her chest. i dont recall if it was before that or after that, but i know for sure like 110% certain that it wasnt intentional and had no sexual purpose. this has been pissing me off and bothering me every day since it happened and ive bawled my eyes out and cried multiple times over it. but i dont know if me feeling guilty about this and crying and stressing about it from morning to night is an overreaction or not considering i know its an accident. i wish i said sorry but in the moment i was too shocked too speak so i said nothing. this was 2 months ago, and it has been bothering me every day since, BADLY. ive cried about it multiple times and thought about it from morning to night non stop, and called many hotlines. sometimes i feel something weird in my chest and it gets hard to breathe. since around that ive noticed similar things have been happening over the last few days, but they have never been intentional. never at all. idk why it keeps happening but im not doing it on purpose, idk whats wrong with me.. i keep thinking im doing something illegal and things like that and ive just been freaking out. i keep thinking what if this is child m*lst? or sexual interference? or csa? am i a child mlster now? i mean i know im not a p or child pred, and its an accident by why does it keep happening even if it isnt intentional? what if this really affects her in the future?i know in my heart of hearts that genuinely it was an accident and not sexual. but what if she doesnt know that? what if she remembers this in a few years and thinks i did it on purpose or something? or for sexual pleasure which ofc i didnt. what if she think its on purpose and i go to jail? im panicking bad now, should i leave it alone or bring it up. i asked some other people in other subs they said its intentional or im creepy or its a fetish and i know that genuinely none of those things are true, or "dont touch people without consent but its not like any of that, they said keep my hands to myself but i know its not intentional. some of the other times its happened are like this:the other day, we had to go out to get her hair done so i had to hold her hand as a safety measure. so bc of that we'd have to be close to each other and alot of the time we would bump into each other ,or for example the other day i wwas trying to push move her away with my arm but part of my arm ended up on her chest which i didnt mean to door another time i'd walked behind her and i think my hand brushed by her skirt, which was again unintentional. or we were arm wrestling and i was pretending to let her win so i'd kinda shake my hand aggressively to make it look like a struggle, and in doing so it touched her chest for like a half second she slapped my hand, and it jerked my other hand and it hit her somewhere i didn't want. i didn't even think of moving my hand, i believe it just happened cuz of the original slap even tho it didn't hurt or the other day we were at a store and i was standing by a shopping cart that she wanted to push, so she aggressively grabbed it as a joke. and then i did it back, but when i did it back part of my hand or arm or whatever incidently touched her chest. again unintentional. or we were arm wrestling and i was pretending to let her win so i'd kinda shake my hand aggressively to make it look like a struggle, and in doing so it touched her chest for like a half second these are some of the ones that are causing me alot of distress. this was months ago and i was very on the fence about apologizing. and just stayed silent about the entire thing. on the one hand, i thought if i didnt apologize then maybe she'd remember it in 10 years and maybe think that it was intentiional or sexual, when it genuinely wasn't and it'd negatively impact her life which is the last thing i want. but on the other hand i thought if i did apologize then it'd plant a seed of fear or doubt in her head about me, and maybe she wouldn't trust me or something. i chose to apologize. the first time i brought it up, i asked if she remembered when we were playing cobs and robbers and i tried to arrest her(since that was the one that bothered me the most), she said no. i didnt ask any further but then the next day i asked her the same thing, and she said remembered us playing it 2 months ago. i said i think i accidentally bumped her chest that day, and said sorry, and that it was an accident. she said "mhm" a couple times cuz i kept repeating myself, and that was it. but i still think it'll bother me internally maybe? im not sure. and im not sure if apologizing was the right move to make or i should have left it alone? and idk if i should bring it up with my mom and say i apologized for it, or if i should just shut up. was apologizing the right move? could there by any cons to me apologizing? another thing is i asked other people, and they called me a chomo, and that fucking HURT. i know that it can't be that. i had no intent, and i know that it isn't premeditated, and i KNOW that it isn't thought out. but i dont understand why it feels like it keeps happening and i fucking hate it so much. and what if what they said is true? or my thoughts are true?? and another thing is. i dont know how to deal or cope with how what people said is online forever now, and that hurts. and i also recently started a new chapter of life. and now i feel like whenever i think about the beginning of that chapter, i'll just think about this situation and how its bothering me, or how those comments about me are out there forever, even though they aren't true. it hurts, and i dont know how to cope with it. i guess my main reason for posting is asking if there could be a con to apologizing? and how i can deal with the comments. also if u respond to this saying im doing it on purpose, but passing it off as an accident, or i wanted it to happen, or saying its an "accident" you're getting ignored and blocked because those things are just simply not true and isnt helpful.