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Is this a form of GasLighting? What should I do?

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PerkyGoldLion · 19/01/2026 05:27

My partner of 7 years is a hardworking family man, very good with our 2 girls, good to me, very loving, does a lot around the house in between work and our sex life is great when we have the opportunity..

There is just this one thing we would say something that aggravates eachother and we would have an argument . We would go from getting on really well to this bicker where I don’t feel enough and get upset. (He always tells me I am more then enough for him and our girls and I am a great mother)

He always has something to blame weather it’s my period, post natal depression etc

We can never get our words out because when we are annoyed we don’t let eachother speak
He goes away to work etc and thinks and then says what he actually meant when the situation has calmed down.

We both think we said something different and I’m not sure if him or I are right. At time it’s makes me feel like I’m going crazy.. he would say that didn’t happen like that? I didn’t mean that ? Or didn’t say that?

I don’t want a broken home as when we are good, we are very good together

Could this be a form of gaslighting?

OP posts:
Catza · 19/01/2026 09:06

Let's rewind for a second. Tell me more about this: We would go from getting on really well to this bicker where I don’t feel enough and get upset. (He always tells me I am more then enough for him and our girls and I am a great mother)

Why do you feel "not enough". Is it just out of the blue? Is that a reaction to what he said?
Forget about whether something is gaslighting or not. How would that inform your decision anyway? You said you wanted to work on relationship. Throwing "gaslighting" into something which already feels like shit communication isn't going to help. You guys need to stop screaming at each other and let each other speak. Maybe then you would hear what you are both saying and the whole "gaslighting" question would cease to exist.

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