Women who have been in emotionally but not physically abusive relationships, are you able to talk about it? When did you realize it was abuse?

Not until a few days ago .. I'll type it down in points ( looks prettier ? )

  • My ex was my best friend Before we started dating, he came across as a great confident person

  • At the beginning of our relationship , everything was great and perfect

  • fast forward a month ..

  • it's difficult to talk about and explain .. I was always hesitant to tell him about my life and what I have going because he was so judgemental and always made me feel like crap about my self

  • he would always try to correct me or make me feel like a child because we're five years apart

  • he would often say things that seemed like they were directed to hurt me and make me feel less about my self.

  • he became really insensitive .. My best friend lost his dad in surgery ( his father is my sisters father in law and he's my sisters brother in law , his father was obese and wanted to start a new life .. He couldn't work out because of his legs , he had issues with them ) , when I told him about it and the state our families were in .. I was looking for him to comfort me instead he told me that he has no sympathy towards someone who does that to themselves and that I should seek someone else to talk too because I'm being way too " sensitive "

  • I would get upset and angry with how he acts and whenever I would tell him and try to explain it to him he would make it seem like it's my fault

  • I blamed my self..

  • remember how I mentioned he was confident .. Turns out he was just full of him self and cocky..

  • the amount of times I cried my self to sleep because of him .. >_<

  • the stress that he was causing me delayed my period for four months and after a week and a few days of our break up .. I got my first period in four months , I thought I missed him but I was really happy

  • Silly me .. I texted him after our breakup .. For a while I tried to be friends with him and then I realized having him in my life makes me miserable

  • having him in my life makes me miserable and unhappy about my self ..

I don't know how to describe it .. Or how to talk about it , I talked to a few friends about everything that went down between me and him .. They told me he was emotionally abusing me , they deleted and blocked his number from my phone and deleted him every where else

I'm trying to pull the pieces together and pretending everything is okay .. I feel a so much better that he's out of my life now

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