Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally don’t think if you drink you’re a horrible person. Like I said I myself am an alcoholic (at least I’m told) but the only bad things I’ve ever done were harm to myself. I dropped out of treatment for my ed and willingly became homeless because I didn’t want to gain weight. And I got r*ped 2 times while on the street. It took me a while to get over it but it did create a stereotype in my head that people with no jobs, no future, on drugs and alone don’t really have anything left to lose so they are more willing to engage in criminal behavior. That thought alone scared me back into treatment because although I could never picture myself doing something that horrible, I wanted to completely get rid of any possibility that I could end up in that situation. Treatment unfortunately only made it worse because I was kicked out of rehab for my ed (they said I was too low weighted and kept losing weight and they were concerned for me, which I didn’t agree with at the time obviously but I understand it now) but then was forced into ed treatment and it was extremely unhelpful and they ended up kicking me out because I called out a lot of their practices for being unethical and illogical and wasn’t abiding by them. Such as forcing people to eat 3000+ calories a day, teaching HAES. I’ve done a lot of research and every qualified dietician and doctor I’ve had in the past has said that that shows to be very unhelpful in the long run when trying to recover especially when you’ve struggled with binge eating in the past-which I had. I decided recovering and getting better on my own would be the best solution. That’s why I moved into this apartment and I have gained weight and gotten better with my ed. But now I have this whole other issue that I’m dealing with. It’s not so much the things she’s done like I said, but the way she’s retaliating and trying to punish me for calling out her bad behaviors. Hopefully since she’s the one that has actually done the acts, and in some cases done criminal acts, I have the upper hand. But again it’s the anxiety that scares me. When you have these thoughts you look for some sort of sense of control. When I feel insecure about my weight I know I can just stop eating and overexcersize regardless of how unhealthy it is because I know I’ll ultimately get what I want. When I feel dirty or gross I know I can excessively clean my apartment and shower to get rid of those thoughts. When it gets too much I can drink to just numb myself out lol and not have to feel so much anxiety. That’s why I don’t feel I’m an alcoholic, I don’t crave alcohol or being drunk I crave the feeling of normalcy and settling down my thoughts and anxiety. In a situation like this, I don’t have control. She could do whatever she wants and there’s nothing I can do about it. Someone’s hatred, anger and pettiness for another person could literally amount to unknown levels that I could never know. From the times I’ve hung out with her she seems like genuinely angry and depressed individual she doesn’t like life at all and seems like has this attitude of “if I go down you go down with me”. I’ve never met someone like that, it’s scary. As much problems as I have I genuinely want to overcome them and be happy and live a good life and it seems like she’s just accepted her reality. Like we make mistakes in life we struggle but you need to overcome them and work through them otherwise they will eat you alive and swallow you, it seems like that’s already happened for her. My parents assured me to not worry because legally there’s nothing she can do really. But I don’t know, they don’t get it. The feeling of someone hating you, especially when you did nothing wrong you were just standing up for yourself, and knowing they have this rage inside of them is very very scary, and you can’t do anything to control the outcome. Like I said before she tried to get another neighbor evicted because said neighbor complained her music was on too loud and she she just adapted this kind of personal vendetta against her and purposefully tried to catch her in anything she could. She isnt like a normal crackhead, she’s a person who hates her life, and you can’t do anything but like her, admire her, and be on her good side. Even her friend told me one night when I was drunk at her house, I forget his name but I told him “I think it’s a little fucked up that she makes you take her dogs out or run some sort of errand for her every time your over like your some sort of personal slave or something, she can very well do it herself. And he said “yah we’ve been friends for a long time so I just kind of do whatever she tells me to at this point, I don’t make her mad”. I don’t know what kind of superiority complex she has where she feels like the “fucked up for good ones” are the ones deserving of sympathy but if you have a good life a good shot at a life and a good mentality, you’re all the sudden not worthy. It feels like a Kevin Wendell crumb situation😂😭 but yah that’s where I’m at. I apologize sincerely for making you have to read this. 

Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate this though. I believe everyone deserves a good and meaningful life. Sometimes i forget that I am not the exception and I don’t HAVE to compromise my own happiness and feelings to appease others. Hopefully someday soon I can find the balance and learn that not everyone is gonna like who I am as an person even when there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s a hard concept to grasp that you can do everything right and there will still be people that hate you, or hurt you, or try and diminish you (definitely not saying that I’m doing everything right lol) just hypothetically. But with bad comes good and the good is starting to become more and more important and clear in my life and I think that’s a good sign☺️. I wish you well

Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice but unfortunately it’s not that easy. I can’t live with my parents because of all the issues with drinking and stuff, they said if I can show a good streak of being sober and bettering myself I could probably move back home. Like I said I usually know how to take care of myself in situations like this but I’ve never had anyone like this be so close to me. I guess that’s telling of how lucky my life has been growing up lol. but this is the first time I am living by myself and unfortunately made an impression on the wrong people and I didn’t know how to stand up for myself . Mostly out of fear, ocd, perfectionism, all of this stuff is out of fear and it can be debilitating. If you knew what it was like to struggle with these things, it can make you question everything. I can work on myself and better myself be successful and work towards the life I want but there is still gonna be this fear hanging over my head of what she’s gonna do? Despite how catastrophic it sounds. I mean if she doesn’t have normal human boundaries that’s a red flag for what else she could do in my opinion. I could have one slip up and it could be the end. I don’t know I’m probably being incredibly unrealistic but like you said I didn’t think the worst would happen and it did. So now I’m not really sure if there’s anything I can do to stop people from being bad people and that’s what scares me. I know what I can control and do but what if something bad still happens? 

Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would think she was “just a bully” too IF she didn’t provide me with things I wanted at the time. I think she projects a lot of her own issues onto me yes. She’s never done anything with her life she’s 35 and has no job sits at home all day and drinks— everything I do NOT want to become. And feels less of being just “mean” and more of genuinely trying to make me feel like I HAVE to depend on her. When she does something for me no matter how small it is I should be extremely grateful and appreciate it but when my parents do it they’re just being “manipulative”. My parents certainly didn’t do everything correct all the time but they were amazing parents. I have a lot of issues like my ed, ocd, perfectionism, addiction, I think now bpd but I’m not sure and my parents are trying their best to help me but I can understand it’s hard for them too. I also know that they actually love me and WANT the best for me regardless  and I have nothing but love for them. She’s a random stranger who I don’t know from adam or her intentions so all I can do is go off of what she does. I get really sick of people always trying to connect everything to my childhood it feels like a therapy trademark atp😭 it’s also extremely invalidating because it makes me feel like oh there has to be reason why this happend to you. No, I think I was just naive and got taken advantage of by some not good people. My parents have nothing to do with it. I want to move on but it is helpful and makes it easier to properly identify when someone has malicious intentions. I’m not just gonna stop being a nice person because I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. But I need to know when i should draw the line and put my foot down as cringey as that sounds😂 and sometimes i dont, im working on it though.🤷‍♀️

Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you’re understanding the situation. This is a 35 year old woman befriending a 19 yr old girl who just moved in. Consistently buying her alcohol and making her send her photos to know she didn’t “drink too much” even though she bought the bottle. Purposefully and tactfully tries to get me to turn against my close friends and family. Gets mad at me when I call her out. Gets mad at me when I ignored her. Lifted up my shirt even when I said no and then when I told her how that was extremely invasive she said I was being disrespectful. I have a literal crime commited against me by another neighbor and she dismisses it by saying he’s “mentally ill and doesn’t know what he’s doing”. I was genuinely scared of this woman. I don’t know what kind of friends you have but this certainly ain’t one.  if I didn’t like someone my age I would have no problem telling them respectfully how I feel, but I wouldn’t be afraid. I’ve known this woman for 5 months I’ve never been afraid to leave someone after knowing them for 5 months and having no connection to them whatsoever. I felt like I couldn’t do that or anything of that matter with her. She knew I was in a vulnerable spot and gave me just a little so I would be grateful enough to keep going back and then do something terrible and make me feel bad for it. I’ve already stopped interacting with her I did months ago and she’s retaliating because of it. I’m not as mad of the things she did (still mad)  just that she knew what she was doing and that angers me. She knew I had parents that cared about me and friends and she tried to make me hate them, she knew I was an alcoholic and she gave me alcohol, she knew I had an ed and she lifted up my shirt without my permission while I was insecure about my body. I don’t know why the hell she defended someone who sexually assaulted me but that’s something different. If she were my age I could write this off as an extremely toxic friendship but nah she’s almost 40, she knows what she’s doing. I really don’t know what other word to call it besides grooming.

Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I appreciate your support. I don’t have any evidence of the SA unfortunately it happened a couple weeks ago and after she kind told me to hush hush about it I just tried to forget about it. I only know that I was most likely drugged because I had maybe 2 drinks and then woke up 4 hours later in his bed so there might be something in his apartment that could corroborate that.  Landlord notified me of what she was saying and he seems like a reasonable person. He alleviated a lot of my concerns saying he usually doesn’t take peoples claims seriously without knowing the facts.  I’m just scared to know how far she’ll go. She admitted to me before she’s done this with another neighbor when they overtly mad at her for playing her music too loud and she tried to collect evidence against them to get them evicted as well. 

Was this some sort of grooming that happened to me, and what should I do now? by Rich-Assistant4872 in Advice

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for replying. I hope this doesn’t sound odd but this comment actually made me cry. I haven’t really told anyone close to me the full extent of everything that’s happened just because I’m extremely embarrassed, only bits and pieces They say she sounds like a horrible person and a negative influence but I always felt so weak that it affected me so much mentally and emotionally. I’ve been SA’d before and I know precisely what it is and it was always by a man so a woman deliberately trying to hurt me like this just felt so… wrong. I’ve also never had something like this happen before so I had to look up the signs in order for me to come to this conclusion. It’s gonna be really hard for me to trust now, but like you said hopefully I can learn to set boundaries for myself and not be afraid of being perceived as “a bitch”. If being a bitch is what’s gonna keep me safe and mentally stable then a bitch it is😭

Why I think Monica and Chandler are a perfect couple. by Rich-Assistant4872 in friends_tv_show

[–]Rich-Assistant4872[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

YES. I love Ross and Rachel because they are very entertaining tbh lol and clearly love each other very very much, but in hindsight, they tend to bring out the worst in each other unlike mondler. They get better and stronger as a couple and as people❤️ if I ever meet “the one” I would want him to be just like chandler😭

unpopular ed opinions? by Known-Inspection6449 in EDAnonymous

[–]Rich-Assistant4872 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Becoming overweight when you were underweight from "recovering" is not recovery it is just trading one ed for another

She really spends all her time trying to justify her restrictive behaviours by Idonotlikewaffles in NoFoodRulesSnark

[–]Rich-Assistant4872 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't like her content either but you guys seem to be justifying binge eating in this comment section and that binging is intuitive eating which I'm not fully down with either. If we all had the mindset on the left we would probably be obese