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Honey, Texas    
     My husband and I are being stalked and harassed by his ex-wife and have been for more than 5 years now.  The stalking began when we were dating. 
     My first encounter with this individual was when she chased me across the gym parking lot in her car and when I jumped into my vehicle [...]

Lisa, Colorado
     I met him in the grocery store where I shopped weekly. He was a new employee. He asked me out every time he saw me there. I always said no, & then had to debate the issue with him.
     One day while working in my front yard, he drove by, u-turned & came [...]

 Scared   
     One day I was on AIM instant messaging with my friend. 
     Then I received an I.M. from this person whom I do not know.  It was kinda creepy, but the person was like “I’m gonna kill myself,” and stuff like that. 
     I did tell her that suicide was a permanent solution to a temporary [...]

Al, New Mexico    
     I was accused of stalking my ex.
     After going back and forth for two years, we finally we broke up. 
     During the time that my wife and I were not talking, I met an another girl in My Space.  I was not interested in her since I was just coming out from a long term relationship.  [...]

Kellie, Florida
     I am a female Emergency Department physician.  I became friends with a coworker, a female Nurse Practitioner employed by the same medical staffing service for which I work. 
     At first, it seemed we had a great deal in common: both had 3 kids, struggled with long hours, stressful work, childcare, etc. much the [...]

Marie, South Carolina    
     I met my ex-boyfriend at church. We went out to lunch. He was very friendly and charming. I did feel uncomfortable when he left at least three messages while I was driving home from our date then he spammed me with emails. I didn’t respond. He kept sending me emails. I finally [...]

Scared   
     I’m 25 yo and was employed as a manager in a department store. A male coworker started making sexually explicit comments to me about 2 years ago which included his telling me what he would do to me if we were ever alone.
     I told him what he was saying was inappropriate, but he continued. I [...]

Kellie, Michigan    
     In late 2004, my brother-in-law was deployed to Iraq.  About four months later, left he began calling my house, making disgusting requests.
     He started out saying that my sister thought that she and I could pose for nude photos…she could send him her photos and I could give my husband mine.  Next, he [...]

Kira, California  
     I guess I am here because I feel I need to tell someone what has been happening to me….
     I live in a very bad area, three or four blocks away from a main intersection where hookers always walk around… The men in my neighborhood seem to think that any woman walking down [...]

Rebecca, Maryland
     When I was a little girl a very strange man from my church would send me birthday cards every year.  Later, when I came home from college, he began to follow me around church, and would call my friends and family.  (It took two years of being stalked for me to realize I [...]