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Originally Posted by Tulip86
I experienced a relationship like this as well a few years ago, it took me over two years to get out. It started with an insult. It evolved. In my experience, it creeps up on you.
Also, me ex managed to make me feel very lonely. This feeling of alienation is something I've heard a lot of people who experienced this mention. It is really hard to tell people close to you about this. I think most people know someone who experienced domestic abuse, but it's just not talked about.
For men, I can only imagine how much harder it must be to talk about because men are stereotyped to me strong, in charge and since being abused is often confused with being weak, they must have a way harder time talking about it and acknowledging that they are being abused.
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I'm so sorry to hear that.
The isolation is the worst; I went from having tons and tons of friends to not so many. Of course, going through something awful like that tends to separate the chaff from the wheat in terms of good friends vs. not good friends, but it's terrible to feel so alone.