A woman who was allegedly raped by her partner told a court what happened that night would "live with me for the rest of my life".
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The man, 30, is on trial in the ACT Supreme Court fighting six charges, including sexual assault and rape, allegedly committed against the woman over several years.
The jury heard the pair started to have casual sex in 2010 and went on to have two children together before their relationship broke down.
Prosecutors said the accused, whose name has been suppressed, had grown increasingly controlling and manipulative as the woman became more isolated.
They alleged the man appeared intoxicated when the woman had gone to his house, when their relationship was still casual, one night in 2011.
He allegedly pinned her against a wall, groped her and put his hands around her throat before he raped her.
She noticed bruises on her breasts, inner thighs and neck the next day.
In separate incidents, he allegedly forced her into sex, masturbated in front of her and bruised her wrists during a scuffle.
The man's defence lawyers have argued the woman reported the alleged incidents to police after the man threatened legal action over custody of their children.
Under cross-examination from barrister Grant Brady, SC, on Wednesday, the woman said she remembered getting a letter from the man's lawyers threatening legal action over custody of the children but could not recall how soon after she made a statement.
She denied she went to police because she received that letter.
The woman admitted the pair had rough consensual sex at other times during the course of their relationship. She said those encounters sometimes resulted in marks on her skin, but never bruises.
Mr Brady asked the woman why, after the man had allegedly raped her, she had paused their relationship rather than ended it.
"That is a very good question," she said. "I loved [him] very much.
"What happened to me will live with me for the rest of my life."
The woman recalled she'd asked the man to stop that night and told him she didn't want to continue.
She said she couldn't remember the first time the pair had consensual sex after the alleged incident.
"Because you weren't raped were you?" Mr Brady asked.
The woman grew emotional as she replied: "Yes, I was."
The trial, before Acting Chief Justice Hilary Penfold, continues.
