Originally Posted by
BklynGrl 
My basic response was no I'm not going to tell you what to do anymore I'm not your mother or your boss and I'm not going to go there anymore. He just keep repeating himself until we both got off the phone upset and frustrated. I just don't know how to stop that emotional tailspin that I go into when he utters those words.
Reading this, I hear my exABF's voice on the phone going on and on and on with the same old stuff. When I tell him that this conversation is going nowhere and hang up, he gets pissed because I hung up and wonders why I hung up. When I tell him that the conversation is going nowhere, that like you,it puts me on an emotional tailspin, he can't understand that. When I blocked my phone and email and the like, it was for my own sanity becaise there was an average of 10 calls throughout the day, sometimes more, for me to explain why I hung up on him.
I blocked my phone and email to distance myself from the insanity of these circular conversations.