Lightbulb Moment.................
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I remember clearly the first time I understood what was happening to me was abusive.
I had heard so much, read so much about abuse. I had no physical scars! But I was in absolute total denial.
Then one day, I finally confided in a friend, it all came pouring out. She listened, then grabbed my shoulders and told me to sit down. She sat down across from me, looked me straight in the eyes and said "do you understand that what he is doing is abusive"?
I was absolutely dumbfounded. I actually found it hard to speak for a few minutes.
But the lightbulb finally clicked on.
I had heard so much, read so much about abuse. I had no physical scars! But I was in absolute total denial.
Then one day, I finally confided in a friend, it all came pouring out. She listened, then grabbed my shoulders and told me to sit down. She sat down across from me, looked me straight in the eyes and said "do you understand that what he is doing is abusive"?
I was absolutely dumbfounded. I actually found it hard to speak for a few minutes.
But the lightbulb finally clicked on.
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: USA
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I remember when I had that ah ha moment. All the time AH was angry. Nothing I did was right. Everything wrong was my fault. One day AH was yelling at me about something totally out of my controlled. I started laughing hysterically. I said to him, "you must think I am a God. I have power over the universe."
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Join Date: Sep 2013
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I remember when I had that ah ha moment. All the time AH was angry. Nothing I did was right. Everything wrong was my fault. One day AH was yelling at me about something totally out of my controlled. I started laughing hysterically. I said to him, "you must think I am a God. I have power over the universe."
He was furious that I was laughing. Told me my laughter proved how crazy I was.
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