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Originally Posted by Have Hope
I don't quite understand this post, but the less you focus on what they have said and the more you focus on your own thoughts and perceptions of what happened, the better off you will be.
Abusers manipulate and lie. They try to alter your perception of reality. You have to stay true to what you think, to what you see, and to what you experience.
An abuser will try to throw you off track and will try to make you think that YOU were at fault somehow for their poor behavior and treatment towards you.
I called the police one night because my abusive husband was yelling at me (again). He then tried to justify his emotional affair that he had after that on the fact that I had called the police.
But there is NO justification for his affair. He KNEW it was the ONE thing he could do that would harm me the very most. And he did it anyways.
So I am not believing his version of what happened, I am not accepting his excuses or his justifications, and I am divorcing him as a result. This is just an example of how an abuser can seriously manipulate and try to distort your sense of reality.
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Thanks again. Which part of the post was unclear to you if you don't mind saying?
I do not consciously focus on what they said... these messages seem to have been absorbed subconsciously. That's what makes undoing all this hard.
And yes I do have my own thoughts and perceptions but this thing is subconscious so that gets tricky.
And yeah, you summed that up well about what abusers/toxic people do. It's actually pretty absurd "reasonings" they use - like your husband did it - but in my case it was emotional and personal messages in their "reasonings" and I couldn't consciously deal with it.
And you are very right with divorcing him, if he can't even take responsibility for such a major thing and BLAMING YOU for it!! Wow so yeah, these two toxic vampires did that too.