There are two sides to every story. Why would your ex say you broke up?

My ex would say that I cheated on him and am a crazy slut who broke up with him out of no where for absolutely no reason, and that if he ever treated me badly it was because I was a cheating slut.

Literally never cheated on the guy. I was with him for 4 years, during which time he was physically and mentally abusive. He was always abusive, overbearing and incredibly insecure, also suffered from depression and bipolar disorder, and was also an alcoholic (didn't find out any of this until about 8 months into out relationship). One day after around 2 years of dating I txted my best friend that I wished she would come visit me at my university and I can't wait for her to come get into some trouble with me and tear up the town. I also in the same txt mentioned a cute guy who kept sitting next to me in class but I hadn't talked to. We her gf saw the txt, and told my (ex) bf 9 MONTHS LATER. He flipped out, his abuse got worse, and I was officially deemed a cheating slut. I wasn't allowed to have any contact with my best friend after that...or really any person at all. Then, my best friend and her gf died in a drunk driving accident. His first reaction was "told you she was a shitry driver". During the viewings her treated me like shit because he said I was dressed like a slut and was a slut for hugging some of my old friends from high school who knew me and her were bestbest friends. Then I spoke at her funeral, and after her burial we were driving out of the graveyard and I was sobbing uncontrollably, he looks at me and says "I don't know why you're so upset. Maybe if you werent such a slut she (& her gf)would have been in WV living with us and they wouldn't have died". Two weeks later I was trying to focus on my homework and he didn't like that I wasn't looking at him while he was talking about something he researched about how to grow weed....that made him so angry that he tried to snatched my computer from me, but I held on to it so he picked me up and slammed me on the back of the couch, which broke one of my ribs. He went to another state for work & when he did I broke up with him and my father came to live with me for a few weeks and helped me through the process of getting a restraining order.

Throughout that entire time I was always trying to talk to him about how I felt. But he would never listen. He would just say it doesn't matter cuz I'm a slut and because of that he should be able to go cheat on me to get back at me because he was so sure that I had cheated (I literally risked getting beaten for taking too long at the grocery store. When tf would I have had time to cheat?!). He denied everything he did, said i was lying ,had his mom txting me harassing me so I had to change my number. I know the guy is still (almost 4 years since our break up) telling people that I really am just a crazy whore who broke his heart, because we are from the same hometown and share some of the same aquaintences.

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