A Story of Emotional Abuse
This is it.
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This is emotional abuse.
When he insists you need to change and you do your best, but he keeps bringing up the past.
This is emotional abuse.
When he behaves differently in front of your family and worse in front of you.
This is emotional abuse.
When he talks about how everyone is out to get him when he’s only doing his best. And how growing up, he’s never had a break and never had the opportunity to do what he wants to do and how no one will ever back him and how you are just the same as the rest, even though you try but it never seems to be enough.
This is emotional abuse.
When he cheers for your wins and boasts about them all over Facebook but then double-checks the route you’ve plugged in to the restaurant and if you really locked the front door, making you doubt whether you’re really capable at all.
This is emotional abuse.
When he refuses to get help because he doesn’t think he needs it but then says you’re not supportive enough.
This is emotional abuse.
When he says how he wants each of you to be your own person with your own interests but that you’re not being supportive, because to him, being more supportive actually means giving up everything you are.
This is emotional abuse.
When he says that you’re so strong and able to fight the world but then also that you’re as reliant as a child and need a carer.
This is emotional abuse.
When he says that you should value how he is explaining the mistakes you’re making and how you need to rectify your flaws because most other guys would have just left.
This is emotional abuse.
When he argues that the honeymoon was great for hours until you’re so exhausted that you just agree to make it stop.
This is emotional abuse.
When he says that he doesn’t trust you and blames you for every problem, but then also says that he doesn’t know how he would cope if you ever left.
