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Have I been abused?

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DM16 · 12/03/2025 23:28

I finished with my partner two months ago. We don't live together thankfully. I got tired of his undercurrent of resentment and I feel jealousy about my relationship with my son who has autism. I'm there for my kid because I'm a good mother. Anyway, sometimes when drinking (he definitely has a drink problem. He drinks every night) he has been resentful about something or other and has blurted it out on drink. Once when drunk he called my son a spastic to my face. I hit him round the head I was so angry. Totally out of character for me but I was so offended. Before Christmas we had an argument about something stupid and he called me a bitch and a c**t. He was drunk. I got so sick of him that it took one more snidey text about me not getting him fresh bread that I ended it completely. I used to go over to his apartment and clean it (he never outright asked me to do this) because I felt I was helping him. I got sick of that too as I thought he was being really lazy not even getting the hoover out. Anyway, the last text I got from him he was drunk and texted that I was the one who abused him! I said why? Because I stood up for myself? I told him time and time again he drank too much. I moved to a new town last year to live near him and it was really hard work cleaning and decorating. He was bloody useless at the time and said he had the flu. He said the move would help our relationship. Obviously, it hasn't. He never said boo to my son as he knew better not to. I thought he was vile for the things he said and I lost feelings for him. Was I abused? Am I right to feel that he is the nasty piece of work he is? I think he's a narcissist now and doesn't to accept his responsibility in the breakdown of our relationship. Am I right to feel like the victim here? I do feel like the victim but he's making out I abused him! Thanks for listening .Clearing me head. I've blocked him now.

OP posts:
ConnieSlow · 14/03/2025 13:28

1SillySossij · 13/03/2025 00:42

You are both abusing each other. He's an alcoholic and you are violent.

This and I hope you stop exposing your child to him too.

BruhWhy · 14/03/2025 13:32

Well, he sounds deeply unpleasant and it sounds as though the relationship was incredibly toxic.

However, you should have walked away the moment you raised a hand to him. There's no excuse for hitting your partner - even what he said.

Besides, does it matter if he was abusive? It sounds like you're trying to prove a point to him, when he's out of your life now. Move on for both yours and your son's sake.

Terrribletwos · 14/03/2025 13:34

DM16 · 12/03/2025 23:31

Thanks. I think he is gaslighting me into thinking I'm the horrible person. So glad to be shot of him.

Why are you still in touch with him?

Botanybaby · 14/03/2025 18:56

Crackanut · 14/03/2025 11:57

I wasn't actually talking about you. Believe it or not, there's more than you defending this vile man.

Edited

If you are on about me I'm also a woman and the only vile actions I see are her .. the op physically assaulting her partner

Crackanut · 14/03/2025 19:03

Botanybaby · 14/03/2025 18:56

If you are on about me I'm also a woman and the only vile actions I see are her .. the op physically assaulting her partner

Let me get this right. You don't think a man calling a child a spastic is vile? Wow.

Botanybaby · 14/03/2025 19:09

Crackanut · 14/03/2025 19:03

Let me get this right. You don't think a man calling a child a spastic is vile? Wow.

As a mother of a child who is bed bound due to starvation of oxygen I live by the mantra of sticks. And stones

Things only upset people if they also agree with what this being said

pikkumyy77 · 14/03/2025 19:11

Cherry8809 · 13/03/2025 10:35

Physically lashing out because you can’t control your temper is being violent.

Imagine if it was the other way around and he put his hands on you because you’d said something nasty.

Agree. Every violent person has a “good reason why they “had to do it this one time.”

The difference between you (hypothetically) snd a common or garden abuser is if you extract yourself smartly from a toxic situation in which you erupt spontaneously in violence. If you continue in a relationship with a man whose vile behavior you try to correct through violence you are a) on a fool’s errand and b) also abusive.

Crackanut · 14/03/2025 19:12

Botanybaby · 14/03/2025 19:09

As a mother of a child who is bed bound due to starvation of oxygen I live by the mantra of sticks. And stones

Things only upset people if they also agree with what this being said

Nonsense.

StrawberryDream24 · 14/03/2025 19:30

DARVO.

StrawberryDream24 · 14/03/2025 19:31

Things only upset people if they also agree with what this being said

What absolute 💩

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