The Men I’ve Killed with My Boundaries

Survivor’s guilt gets complicated when your abuser dies.

Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash

Trigger warning: This piece mentions emotional abuse, reproductive coercion, suicide, and sexual assault.

A year before he died, my rapist emailed me saying he was suicidal. A girl had just dumped him and he was spiraling. He’d relapsed on heroin. He was miserably alone and the…