- Date posted
- 2y
I just want it to stop
My boyfriend and I have been having more frequent conflicts. He’s processing things from a few months ago that he’s still working through with forgiving me. The thing is with him if I get overstimulated and snap or ask to go to another room to calm down he starts breaking down. I always apologize and explain why what happened happened. It takes us a while to get into the conversation of “What can we do now moving forward?” Because once he’s in that state he can’t leave or control it so he brings up every mistake I’ve made and tells me to take accountability for it. He’ll then goes on to say how I don’t know him and that he’s changed himself completely for me and that I only know a shell of a person in him. He’ll say how he can never feel loved by me because he doesn’t understand how someone that loved him would treat him that way, and etc. This is extremely triggering and emotionally draining for me. I love him so much and it sucks because I have no genuine idea of why I snap or why I forget so many things. I don’t mean to hurt him but it seems like that’s all I ever do. He even said that the entire year we’ve been together (one anniversary was yesterday) was him in pain and not ever feeling loved by me. He always begs me to go back to how I was right when we started dating. I try to explain that I’m in flight or fight more 24/7 now due to financial instability and other mental health issues that I deal with. I was at a better mindset when we got together so of course he’s never seen me frustrated or whatever. The thing is I want to go back to her too. I want to be myself again. We got into an argument and he said “you always blame me and do things to me because you just want to hurt me” and then started banging his head into the wall. This set off my nervous system and I got scared thinking he was at his limit with me and was about to breakup with me, so I start mentioning a break up. This is our biggest conflict yet because I don’t know how to explain that my nervous system was set off in a way that completely shattered me. We’ve talked that situation out and have been trying to rework through everything else. I love him so much but he mentioned this girl named lolo a lot and one time after an argument he said “You know, lolo never judges me. She never makes me feel like I’m doing anything wrong. She lets me be who I am and understands me” this caused my rocd and bpd to skyrocket into the belief that he’s going to end up leaving me for her even though after talking about it he said he’s never thought she was pretty and was scared that I thought she was pretty because I told him that I was scared he thought she was Anyways, i side eyed him on his phone and saw that he responded to her Instagram story post. This triggered me and I’ve since been crying and smoking cigarettes in discreet setting while he masturbates Please let me know if anyone has ANY kind of advice or just tell me I’m not crazy or what to do with handling all of this