My ex used to beat me up. It's as simple as that, and that's why in the end I left. He'd already cancelled our wedding a month before the day and cheated on me multiple times so it's really no great loss.
I'm happily in a relationship with someone else and we are very happy and looking forward to the future. Just to hit home that my confusion here is about myself and not me pining for my ex or being jealous at all.
He and his new partner are getting married. She knows all that happened between us so knows what he has the potential to do to a woman living with him, but has said that won't ever happen to her because she isn't a woman like me. Now I can't help but wonder why I was only ever good enough to be a punch bag. What kind of woman am I? I don't like the insinuation I brought it on myself and I feel quite low about it to be honest, that I didn't meet some criteria or that there was something wrong with me and that's why it happened. It's all very strange, and I'm scared of opening old wounds that took years to heal.
Don't really know why I'm posting other than to get it off my chest really.. thanks for reading.
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gentlydoesit89 · 22/05/2017 13:11
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