- Date posted
- 2y ago
I feel like I need an outside opinion
TW: real/perceived relationship problems Today I was talking to my boyfriend about how I should have submitted my art to this art contest I had heard about because I could have won money. He said something along the lines of “that’s cocky of you”. He claims I said it in a way that implies that I would easily win, hence the cocky comment. Later today, he jokingly said I have main character syndrome, which he also joked about a few days-a week ago. A while back he also said I suffer from main character syndrome and think too highly of myself one time. I kind of pried it out of him, he was going to say something and then changed his mind until I begged for him to say it. Later he took that back and said he didn’t really mean it. Anyways, with the two things from today in addition I felt insulted and felt like he was tearing me down and insulting me for no reason. After the main character syndrome joke today, I got grumpy and he responded saying I have a short fuse. I am a very sensitive person but it just felt mean and I’ve struggled with my confidence in the past so I know I’m not actually an overly confident person. Rather than being all sweet and apologizing and saying I’m not those things, we got into an argument and he defended his reasoning about how the way I framed the sentence sounded cocky and how he was just joking about the main character thing. Now I can’t stop worrying that I’m in a bad relationship and that I’m being mistreated. It’s causing me a lot of anxiety because I feel like he really is in the wrong here but I don’t want him to be in the wrong because that means I’m being treated badly so I kind of feel the urge to defend his side. It’s causing a lot of distress. And I feel this way whenever he makes dark jokes too (he also made one of those this morning).