I know this may sound like a silly question but please, let me explain.
I am talking to this male who is older than me online, he knows that I like him a lot. So when I show him pictures of me, he puts me down by saying negative comments about me.
Another example is that we exchange recipes sometimes. I recently showed him a picture of something I made as he always shows pictures of his meals and I complement them. So, when I worked up the courage to show him a picture of a meal that I made, I said a gentle way, "doesn't my meal look tasty..." His responce back to me was "actually it does not look good at all." sure he may have been honest with me but he knows I suffer from low self esteem and he could have chosen better words, he is a smart man and very good with his words. This is not the first time he has made a comment like this to me before.
My only offline friend has noted how he is very bad for me, always putting me down (I have told her some of the stuff he has said). But the issue is that, for some stupid reason, I think he is attractive and he knows that I have a little crush on him and I wonder if he is using that to his advantage to abuse me.
So I guess my question is that is this considered abuse, what he does to me?
Has anyone here suffered from this kind of thing?
How did you handle it?
It makes me so depressed that he says these things to me, and I already have a hard time finding the right guy for me as it is, I really do wish the right man would come around and not have to deal with this crap.
Abuse of any kind sucks!