I do tend to take things really personally and am a pretty reactive person. I am trying to work on it so that I am easier to communicate with but sometimes I find myself in an argument and I am completely and utterly bewildered how it got that far. Then I am doing all my old habits of just reacting to whatever is happening instead of trying to calm the situation. My boyfriend says I am a drama queen which I really, really, hate, because I do want things to be nice and calm and happy all the time. It'd just a little harder for someone with Bipolar ! and severe anxiety to get to that point. He tells me I go big all the time. There is truth is that, but I'm not sure having my faults thrown back in my face all the time is helpful. I'm also wondering if some of you feel really lost in your relationships because you feel he ,always always has the upper hand because the way that you respond to any sort of conflict is wrong? I'm feeling like I'm living under a microscope and any wrong move I make is brought to my attention. He says it isn't like that and he always wants me to be genuine and be myself, but it doesn't feel like that sometimes.