My story of emotional abuse

Dec 27, 2017 3:50 AM

wwcheeseathelete

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My husband and I were married at the end of September. A few weeks before, I received a Facebook message from a woman telling me she and my now husband had been in an on-going relationship for nearly a year. She included screenshots of texts from him saying he was going to end it with me in order to give their relationship a real chance. When I confronted him about it he said he had no real feelings for her but he was terrified of marriage and wanted to know he wasn't trapped. Charmer. He comes from a family of liars who act like they do it to protect one another so honesty had been an ongoing issue in our relationship. We've been together for 6 years and he was so manipulative and emotionally abusive that by the time I found out about his cheating, my first instinct was that I did something wrong or I wasn't good enough to be with him. I genuinely believed it was a phase because of the pressure and I ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED TO HIM for putting too much pressure on him during the wedding planning. He has repeatedly undermined my career goals and life plans by arguing until I agree that those feelings are irrational. He only cooks, cleans, and plans for himself but if I don't include him in a decision he would make me feel like garbage for being selfish. I attempted suicide once and he yelled at me for an hour about how selfish I was and how distracted he would be at work because he has to worry about my safety.
Lesson: saying all of this to strangers helps me see how bat shit crazy it sounds. But when you're with someone as manipulative as my husband you make every excuse to ignore it. You say you're crazy and selfish and think of every nice thing they've ever done to make up for the horrible person they are. But what I've learned is it's never too late to walk away. Yes I wish I would have had the self esteem to leave before getting married but at least I realize it now and I'm seeking help. I may have had a shorter marriage than Kim K but I cannot describe the relief of knowing that I'm not crazy and I am worth loving.
I know this will die in usersub but I'm sharing for anyone who is stuck in the pit I've been in for years. You deserve love.

He’s a narcissist and you are lucky to see it now and get out. Check out www.selfcarehaven.org for support and Info.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I've been in an emotionally abusive relationship.. It's hard, but I found that going to therapy/support groups really help a lot

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Sometimes its just best not to get married

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Annulment is a lot cheaper. Get an annulment. Hurry, don't wait.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just got divorced out of an 8-year marriage and a 10-year relationship. At least you found out early

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You should look up Narcissist Personality Disorder. This might help you make some sense out of it all...

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Good for you OP. Once you realize a marriage is wrong, get out. Quickly.

8 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 2

Not getting married in the first place would have made it easier - you tell yourself more reasons to stay after going to all that trouble.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Get out NOW!

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Wait a second. The main question is: knowing his background of six years of abuse...why did you marry him? Change yourself not him.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

abuse in relationships can happen so slowly you don't realize it until you're neck deep. not until you look back that you go "why the fuck"

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The biggest thing I'm worried about here is that you married him AFTER finding out he'd been cheating on you for a year

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

People take back cheaters all the time, especially if they've been conditioned to think it's their fault.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Can you get it annulled?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get out now. Don’t look back.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The truth is he won't grow up and get better until you leave him. Never go back to him, move on and find someone who appreciates you

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Even after she leaves him, he may not get better. Don't look back OP!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Very true. Always wise to just move on

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Good for you! Be strong. You've got this.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Please, get rid of this parasite. Please! Good luck ,I hope, 2018 will be your year of victory, happiness, pride and freedom:)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

@OP, you both need help. not for your relationship, that seems well past. for your own sake. please seek it where you can, best of luck.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My fatherly advice. Set a timeline and be done with it, ASAP. Put him in the past. Don't look back, cut off all contact.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I say cutoff all contact because he will still try to control you, don't let him..Be strong and think for yourself and for your future...

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hugs. I was married 4 days when I first called a divorce lawyer. Emotional abuse as well. Hoping divorce is final soon. Wish you the best.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I left my emotionally abusive husband after less than 2 years of marriage. Sometimes I have to remind myself of what a horrible piece of...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shit he was. You’ll want to revert to good memories when you start feeling lonely. Just remember you are far better off being alone than...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Being with someone who makes you feel worthless.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's called gaslighting. Fuck him. Enjoy your emancipation lady

8 years ago | Likes 295 Dislikes 4

I bet the divorced husband downvoted this. Dick.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Couldn’t agree more.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Yup. And @op shouldn't feel bad. Fish don't see water.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This. It's the number one trait of someone who is cheating, and it's hands-down considered abuse, anywhere.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Make sure you get emancipation and not defenestration. Similar words, different outcomes.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I'd suggest not fucking him. Dick has a way of clouding issues

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

yes but if shes the one fucking him dildos have a way of making the brain understand pain in a more personal Way.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Technically correct

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

good luck

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Saying I know this will die in usersub is a call for it to make it to the front page. Like really people?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Usually people get downvoted for their "sob stories", and having lived through an abusive childhood, you don't realize how fucking far >

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

>beyond "normal" this behavior is so you think its just another standard sob story and ppl will tell you to "get over it" and you're over->

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

>reacting. She probably thought this wasn't anything outside of normal shotty behavior and ppl wouldn't care all that much.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

*shitty

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The sooner you get out, the healthier you will be.

8 years ago | Likes 143 Dislikes 0

Also, get tested for STIs, @wwcheeseathelete

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

All this advise and op doesn't seem to have checked imgur as no replies etc

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

She could be working? If be unable to reply to these at work (no service and Imgur is blocked on my work computer)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Indeed. But, posted 14 hours ago, usual working hours are 8.. normal people would be intrigued to check during the day/ respond

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not everyone is tethered to their phones or gets imgur updates on their phones.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Did I say that? Always fun when people butt in with an opinion based on incorrect perspective of a conversation

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Hopefully she is getting her ducks in a row to gtfo, thus unable to respond...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, just found it odd being that it's a total newbie.. will be shocked to see it's FP

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I wish I lived with my first wife for at least a few months before we got married. Never made that mistake again.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

This is such solid advice, I wish everyone would live with their partners before marriage.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Marriages statistically fail more often if you live together beforehand.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yeah you have to give a sauce for stuff like that.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Has to do with diff viewpoints between just cohab and married cohab plus weaker relationships slide into marriage when they wouldn't othrwis

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Sauce or no dice.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I'm currently at almost 10 years with my partner now. I'm pretty sure she's a keeper, but we still haven't merged our DVD collections.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ah yes, the true test.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a book person, what's special with DVD-collection merging? :D Book merging is so easy, get nice bookshelves and put them all there.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't like divorce but i can see that in this case that shouldn't have been a marrige in the first place. Hope the best for your future.

8 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 13

You don’t like divorce for you or everyone? How do other people’s divorces effect you?

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

Mine like yours is must an opinion and we should respect that eventi if we don't share it.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Also i'm not the type of person that want to force other to think like me, so if you disagree i'll not tell you are wrong since you aren't.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Just asked a question dude.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sry for acting a little aggressive maybe but for all the time i've been on the internet ppl didn't like my point of view so sry again.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We are one big society so every action have an effect on every one one way or another.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

Good for you... only thing I can fault you for is the suicide attempt, that's fucked-up and a shit move, had a ex that pulled the same shit

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Once my friend told me that he didn't see any point in staying alive anymore. I knew that he said it to get attention because he had 1/?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Said similar things many times before. I told him he either confessed that he was trying to get attention or I would call someone 2/3

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So he got the help a suicidal person needed. We got very upset with each other. Did I not handle that right? He is fine btw.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You wrote that you attempted suicide... not him

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think I am who you think I am.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can probably just get an annulment instead of having to go through with the whole shebang since it's only been 3 months

8 years ago | Likes 842 Dislikes 6

An amicable divorce costs little, however based on her description of the situation that doesn't look like a possibility

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Maybe he wants half his money?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Since it was a she bang that got you in this mess

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or a dissolution of union, if he agrees to sign it. It's faster and cheaper than a standard divorce, depending on assets.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not true. There's very few ways to get an annulment and OP doesn't have the option.

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 8

Proof of adultery is on of them.

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 6

Generally bigamy, not adultery

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Only in some states/countries.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Doesn't that only apply if they haven't consummated?

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 21

Depends on laws/payouts. My parents knew a pious couple too good for divorce, married 10+ years and had kids, paid huge and got annulled.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Read that as 10+ kids

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Very pious.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

How do you even confirm that

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

back when virginity was an absolute must midwives could check for the hymen. if you want to read more you can look at this article.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Historically yes, but modern annulments have different criteria. Legal grounds vary by state in the US.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Not since gay marriage, since gay couples can't physically consummate. At least in the U S

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 10

Depends on your definition of "consummate" I guess. Either way that piece of legislature is hugely outdated

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Oh definitely, I'm not saying it's current, just that they dropped the consummate part from annulling marriage for that reason.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol down votes for a statement of fact? Excuse the fuck out of me

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1/? Getting an annulment has nothing to do with time. It deals with the terms of the marriage and the couple and vary from state to state...

8 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 3

2/? Most states have normal terms for the annulment; such as: MARRIAGES BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS, IF ONE OF THE PARTIES IS UNDERAGE...

8 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 2

3/? IF ONE OF THE PARTIES IS IMPOTENT, IF ONE OF THE PARTIES LACKS THE MENTAL CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MARRIAGE ENTAILS,...

8 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 2

4/? IF ONE OF THE PARTIES COMMITS TO MARRIAGE UNDER A FALSE PRETENSE, SUCH AS A BABY ON THE WAY, and others depending on the state, ...

8 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 2

Hahahaha excellent. Thank you for your accuracy

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

5/5 Now most people who want an annulment think their spouce is retarded, but the whole "mental capacity" will have to be proven.

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 3

This is probably the one thatll work

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

False pretenses may work when he was already committed to another.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1