i had this really weird flashback today that made me feel Very Not Good and i hate bringing up old stuff to him cause i know it hurts him and i have a lot of weird flashbacks so i just didnāt bring it up today. ļæ¼
so. flashback to taurus. of course
we got into an argument about something dumb. we argued for two hours when no one was home, so naturally he took it upon himself to scream. at one point i was done speaking back and just sat there, laid down. he laid down next to me but facing the opposite direction. after 10 minutes of laying in silence i finally cracked, softly touched his back and said āplease donāt talk to me like thatā. he responded by whipping around and saying in a literal demonic voice ājust fucking give me spaceā but he said it with shake in his voice. and it was very loud. he sounded scarily angry. i shook immediately because obvious loud noise in the otherwise silent room and I made that high pitch noise i make when im scared. I retracted my hand and was quiet. he then said ādonāt even do that shit where you pretend youāre scared of meā but hahahah i really was.
so now flash to dinner time, this happened like early evening, i still have yet to say a word. he has yet to say a word. itās been literal hours of us sitting in silence while he watches something. im making food in the kitchen and heās doing something, he doesnāt even make eye contact with me. im so sad, and cried out, and exhausted. really hot baths make me feel better. i drew a bath and i just sat there sunk to my lips in water and just cried as silently as possible.
eventually he knocks on the door when ive been in the bath for over two hours. itās locked because i just wanted peace. he says in his very familiar gentle voice āsarah please open the doorā. i didnāt answer or make any noise. I donāt know why I did that, I just couldnāt bring myself to answer or say anything audibly because at this point I had shut down. he got the little key thing from on top of the doorframe and unlocked it. i didnāt want to look at him. i just cried silently. he said ācmon, get out. come watch a movie.ā I didnāt move. He sat on the floor for a few minutes and stared at me. He said he was sorry for yelling. I still didnāt move.
At this point, he goes back into the room with comes out with my clothes. He drains the tub and gently grabs my arm and pulls me up, dresses me, and gives me a hug. I still havenāt said a word. I was completely shut down and void of any emotion.
He tried to make it better by attempting to hold me but at that point I was violently crying. I laid there the rest of the night pretending like I was actually watching a movie but I dissociated does hard when I calmed down. My eyes were puffy and my face hurt from the swelling of crying so hard.
And I couldnāt even leave then, when I shut down so badly that I didnāt see the need or have the want to speak. And people wonder why I stayed so long, but things like that behavior is why. Even though he was horrible sometimes, he knew how to play his cards to keep me around. I wanted intimacy so badly that any shred of it gave me small gratification, and I genuinely thought at the time that small amounts of affection are better than being alone all together.
The gross thing is that he wasnāt always awful. He knew how to give me good days, he knew how to be nice, he knew how to be caring. He just never really wanted to, which told me he was playing a part. He was very good at covering up his actions with affection and making them diminish because ālook I did this one good thing for you so therefore Iām absolved of everything elseā. Thatās why leaving was so difficult and no one ever seems to understand.
But I thought of that moment today and I remember how utterly empty and unloved I felt. How it hurt me to my fucking core. More so that I was so weak, and I let him coddle me into thinking an apology was sincere. that feeling was unpleasent to remember
And since I have not been going to therapy recently this is for me. to vent