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Whats the most emotionally abusive thing someone has said or done?

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yesterdaysnews3c · 15/10/2018 09:56

I had a horrible relationship that ended a few months back. Mumsnet helped me identify what emotional abuse is and made me realise how subtle it can be.

I think people don’t always know what is abuse until it is pointed out.

My ex did many things but oh the silent treatment...I planned a mini break for us and he didn’t speak to me for 30 hours of it after I said (politely!) please don’t tell what to wear (third time of him telling me to change my top and me refusing)...

OP posts:
fraggledup · 15/10/2018 21:47

Telling me my 14 year old (literally 14 years and one week old, so just over 13) virgin self, who had not even so much have held a boys hand was having an affair with the much older man that had actually groomed me. Stereotypical that I babysit for his child and he groomed me, but no according to H I was having an affair because it happened more than once, so my fault.

After him instigating anal sex, which I went along with (yes stupid I know) to please him, because for some reason I really wanted to please him, he told me how dirty I was and how I should know he was not like that and I was just filthy.

When he told me on my birthday (significant because it's my prevailing thought every birthday) that I was too fat and ugly to have sex with....... the next night he wanted sex and I was so happy to do it (I was clearly very vulnerable and desperate back then).

Alska · 15/10/2018 21:52

Oh god, loads. I’ve managed to try and forget most of the things my parents said to me but a few stick in my mind.
I had a squint in my eyes as a child and I was very self conscious of it. My mother would regularly call me a ‘cock eyed bitch’, I was made to feel like a freak that wasn’t worth their love because of it.
May not sound much but it bloody hurt at the time

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