You Turn: “Her Step-dad Assaulted Me. Can We Still Be Friends?”
In a new feature I’m calling “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: I have a friend who I was close with in high school, and we know attend the same college. She’s been having a really difficult time as of late. Her stepfather (who taught both of us in high school) was recently incarcerated for inappropriate relations and sexual assaults of some of his female students. She’s been emotionally fragile in the past, and battled low self-esteem and a very serious eating disorder when we were younger. Since her stepdad’s arrest, she has moved in with a…