![]() ![]() ![]() I made him aware of my past on our very first date, a date that went on for over 24 hours. I found, over and over again, that I wasn’t. Things moved quickly, although I made sure to take serious stock with myself about whether or not I was making the same mistakes as before. I never intended to get into another relationship, but as often happens, I met someone amazing when I wasn’t even looking. I practiced making healthy decisions and identifying the type of people I wanted to be around, rather than the people who “needed” me. ![]() I wanted to remind myself that there were people out there who weren’t like him. With time, I moved on and started dating again. I wasn’t responsible for how I was being treated, but therapy helped me acknowledge that I had an unhealthy perception of how a relationship should be. Sometimes people use that in the worst possible way.īasically, I was being treated like a doormat. I saw I was directly seeking out people in my life who “needed help.” These people then went on to take advantage of my selfless nature. Therapy helped me understand the patterns I had fallen into. I realized that I had been living in constant fear for nearly 2 years since we started living together. It took many months of hard work in therapy to get some perspective. Looking back, I think I had been building up to that moment for a long time, and that day just pushed me over the edge. Maybe it was because I’d secretly started reading about abusive relationships, trying to figure out if that was what was happening to me. Maybe it was because being headbutted was new: He normally stuck to fists. I’m not sure why that was what finally did it. This time was different.Īt that moment, I knew I wasn’t going to make any more excuses for him. This had happened countless times before. He quickly knelt down, begging forgiveness. In September 2019, my boyfriend of 3 years backed me into a corner, screamed in my face, and headbutted me. ![]()
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