I got intimate with my cousin and fear fling will wreck new relationship

DEAR DEIDRE:I’M stressing that I won’t be able to have sex with my new man because I feel guilty about the naughty things I’ve done in my past.

As a teenager I sexually experimented with my cousin and was saucy with my uncle.

Now I’m so worried my past might come back to haunt me it’s starting to affect my new relationship.

I wish I could turn back time.

I was only 17 when my male cousin of 18 and I started fooling around.

We went to the same college and would hang out regularly.

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I had never thought of him sexually until I saw him with another girl and felt a pang of jealousy.

He split up with this girl a few months later and I began flirting with him whenever I saw him.

We ended up sexting and kissing and touching each other intimately. Thankfully we didn’t have full sex.

It was so exciting because nobody else knew about us. I think the secrecy made it something very special.

Eventually our contact fizzled out after we left college and started working.

A year later I started flirting with and sexting an uncle.

Again, I think it was the illicit nature of our contact that was so exciting.

After a couple of months he tried to arrange to meet me in secret and thankfully I came to my senses and called it off.

This all happened over six years ago but I feel so weird about it now.

I am 24 now and my new man is 26. I barely see these family members now, but I can’t stop worrying.

How do I protect my new relationship?

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