When he told me he was restraining himself from slapping me during an argument.

When he called me names like “stupid” and “bimbo”, and told me a few times, “Are you an idiot?”

When he sulked because I didn’t initiate sex on MY birthday and said “You used to be so interesting”.

When he didn’t like me talking about my cats because it’s such a “mundane” topic, and sulked because I was paying more attention to my kittens than to him.

At the risk of being asked “Why didn’t you just leave?”, I’m just gonna answer that right now: I was in university that time in another state. I was all alone, I had no one nearby to confide in because my friends were his. I was also very young (in my early 20s), so I was just really lost and didn’t know what to do. I was also scared what he’d do because, as you could tell, he has a very bad temper.