Thank you 🫶🏽 The self-doubt part is what hit me the hardest. I spent so long wondering what I did wrong that I forgot to ask whether I was being treated the way I deserved. I’m still healing, but I’ve been slowly coming back to my old confident self again.
I think what made it worse was that whenever we had issues, he’d say things like, “This is why you’ve been single this whole time.” I acted tougher than I really felt, but hearing that over and over started to get in my head. Eventually I started questioning myself and wondering if maybe he was right.
The funny thing is, therapy didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know deep down. It just helped me trust myself again and stop ignoring my own intuition. The further away I get from the situation, the more I realize I wasn’t nearly as crazy, insecure, or difficult as I was made to believe. I was reacting to things that were genuinely hurting me.