I (25F) and my bf (25M) have been together for 6 years. We live together and basically have our whole relationship. Just to give a back story, Our relationship has always been pretty bad. he’s been caught texting other women and flirting recently, he’s destroyed our house that only I clean, by dumping soda every where on the floor, knocking over the liter box, spitting everywhere, etc. recently he broke my tv and kicked our door in destroying it, when I locked myself in there to hide from him and his outburst. He will call me names like obese, tell me if I had more estrogen maybe I would act more like a women ( I can’t have kids), so he definitely gets very verbally abusive. So I decided I was going to leave, I live super far from my family and plan on moving back to my hometown. Before I 100% decided I was leaving, I asked him to go to couples therapy with me. He refused, I asked for a conversation at least to see if there anyway we can save the relationship, he said “ I’m not begging for you”. Now that I am leaving, he seems to be basically pushing me out the door, said he is getting a air bnb this weekend, and that I’m playing mind games and I just need to leave. But I can’t, I have to wait for my family members to come help me move. Anyway, I told him I have not been perfect, I get attitudes or I do things I regret yes. I am not perfect and I know I have a lot of things I need to work on and work through. I’m no saint. But I admit when I am wrong, he doesn’t. I don’t think I deserve this treatment at all. I know he isn’t the only one to blame, but I told him I don’t destroy his stuff, threaten him, mess the house up, etc, when I’m mad. I may yell, call him names, but I never get physical. Now he’s guilt tripping me and saying I never loved him, and I’m just giving up and this is so random that I’m leaving and I must have been using him. When that’s not the case at all. This hurts so badly, I wanted to have a future with him, I really do love him and it’s hurtful for him to say I’m just leaving because I don’t love him and I used him, instead of taking accountability for everything he’s been doing to me and realizing that’s why I’m leaving. Not because I want to, but it’s become apparent that I HAVE to. I just don’t want to regret leaving. I want to know I’m making the right decision. I know there’s 2 sides to every story, and this is only my side. But I just need some advice, I know I’m not alone here, I know this has happened to other people. If you could go back to the time in your life when you was going through this, and was having a hard time leaving, what would you say? Any advice would be nice on how to handle this and how to move forward.
TL;DR: My boyfriend never takes accountability and constantly blames me. I’m not sure if I’m overreacting or if I need to leave.
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Girl, get the fuck out of that relationship. ASAP.
Good luck.
You are not overreacting.
You’ve wasted 6 years on him, please don’t waste any more.
He’s saying those things to you specifically to make you upset and guilty. He wants you to stay so he can abuse you some more, because he likes abusing you. But he isn’t going to tell you anything nice like he wants you to stay, because then you might feel like you have any power in this relationship and he doesn’t want that. He wants you to stay, thinking that you have no other options, so that he can continue his abuse.
There is a free pdf that you can find online called “Why does he do that” by Lundy Bancroft. You should read it.