Table 4.

Help-seeking behaviors.

Categories	Testimonial	Participant
Do not isolate yourself and tell someone about your situation	I told my friends and my family.	P2F-D6
Ask for advice	Going with my partner to talks, like, they advise us on how the relationship should be.	P3F-D6
Turn to someone with experience	Ultimately, one shouldn’t make the decisions. Well, you have to make them. But after talking to someone who’s more experienced and older. And that person tells us, “Look, you know what, do this.”	P4M-D7
Turn to mothers	I personally do tell my mom my stuff…because I know she always has the right words or advice for me.	P4F-D5
More knowledge	To know more about the subject.	P1F-D8
Reporting the situation	Something like that happened, but with a classmate, and we went to the psychologist to tell her what had happened, and from there, the professionals started to ask for more statements.	P6F-D7

Triangulation between the researchers based on the participants’ experiences as narrated in the focus groups.