Rape is common in the United States. But while there is no doubt that the woman is the rapist's first victim, she is not the only victim. Her man--a husband, a boyfriend, is often a victim too. There is guilt, a need to lash out, frustration at not being able to make everything right again. ABC News looks at couples trying to survive, trying to find what psychologists call a 'new normal.' The old normal, the life before the rape, is gone. The new normal will include the scars of the assault, it will include the fear and the distrust, the revulsion, the anger. But life can't be just those things, for that would be no life at all.
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