Women who are going through a break-up, how are you?

Super sad. It just happened. We've been together about four years. When quarantine started we weren't living together (and had liked it that way). He wasn't being as cautious as I was with going out so I didn't go over for a week and then I got quite sick and was in bed for a few days so I stayed at home to make sure not to take germs to him (whatever it was). I thought I was just being responsible.

All of a sudden he started being mean. I thought it was just stress but it was bizarre and he started always playing the devil's advocate like somehow no matter what I said I was stupid. For example I would tell him just in conversation that I was buying some extra supplies so I didn't have to go to the store as often and he would make fun of 'loser preppers' who are over-anxious and clearing out the stores. Then literally in the same conversation he would turn around and say I wasn't taking any of this seriously and I really needed to prep and read up on the news instead of being two weeks behind. I had whiplash at every conversation and he got more condescending. I felt like I was on eggshells.

Then all of a sudden he just clammed up at any phone call and all his comments were passively geared towards hinting at how boring I was and how I didn't enrich his life in any way. I mean, I'm shut in with quarantine. I'm doing some work, and trying to take care of life and grabbing a couple of hobbies, but it's not like I can describe an exciting day and I do get down sometimes. He would call only to see if I was still alive and wasn't in my massive panic that I've constantly been in (which wasn't true - I had two panic attacks in five weeks which is unusual and I handled them). The passive criticism kept building up (almost like he wanted a supermodel and I just didn't fit the bill) and then suddenly he blamed me for all of it and not paying attention to him and it was over. He wouldn't even talk about it. I have no idea what happened but I lost my friend and cuddler. :-(

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