Maribel described her abusive relationship with the words threatened, scared, hopeless and hurt. She found out she was being abused when her partner threatened to slap her.
She writes:
It all started when he said for me to bring him his phone from the room. He did not say it in a polite fashion, although I dismissed that and the following conversation proceeded:
Me: “Wasn’t it just here on the table?”
Him: “Why the hell would I be asking you to bring me the phone if it was on the table?”
I also dismissed this and brought him his phone. I tossed it so it would land right next to him.
Me: “You’re not welcome.”
Him: “I wasn’t going to say thank you.”
Me: “I know you weren’t. That’s why I said you’re not welcome.”
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The part that resonates with me most is the way you kept overlooking what he was doing. This is something about abuse I had never heard about until I found myself doing it and spoke it in my head. For many reasons, we may not realize what is happening to us, because he has us fooled, because we don’t want to, because we’re used to being treated badly… But no matter how much our conscious mind overlooks these things, we can’t mask the pain and neither can he. We will still hurt. We need to spread the word that any hurt is a big warning sign. It is not okay… Because I had to find it out myself… Here is a link from my blog about this – http://www.theloveinhereyes.com/2012/04/05/the-silent-abuse-symptom/