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Is there a term for when somebody gets cross or upset with you because of what they think you're thinking?

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BoldFossil · 21/09/2014 22:07

i learnt about gaslighting and stonewalling here and I just wanted to google a bit about this.

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BoldFossil · 22/09/2014 13:47

wellwhoknew yes, it is some form of that!

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BoldFossil · 22/09/2014 13:48

andthebandplayedon would have taken me longer to see it if it weren't for my apprenticeship on MN. Thank God for mn.

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LapsedPacifist · 23/09/2014 02:11

Now he's texting me saying 'how could i believe a word you say when you spent x years with somebody you didn't love'. (my x, children's father). I did spend years with him when i didn't love him but it was out of fear, low self-esteem, isolation, having nowhere to go and no money when i got there. I did in the end leave and I've never regretted it. I totally rebuilt my life. I'm financially secure now. How dare he rake over things in my past that I'm at peace with.

Christ on a bike, are you me? Had the same shit thrown in my face, word for word:
'Well, I might be an abusive aresehole, but you tolerated another abusive arsehole for years, so how come he gets a get out of jail free card??' (while you are struggling desperately to maintain civil relations with your DC's father, because, well you are a decent person trying to do the right thing...)

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