New year, same abuser playbook.
Category: Abuse
#1436: “Why Do Abusers Take Your Stuff?”
Abusers are so boringly alike. #ThisFuckingGuy rides again.
#1432: Q: “I know I want to leave, but how do I make sure that it’s the right time?” A: The right time is when it’s right for you.
The right time to leave a relationship that's making you unhappy is whenever it's right for you.
#1425: “I can’t comfort my partner and it’s killing me!”
Will we ever be free of #ThisFuckingGuy? Content note for emotional and verbal abuse and mentions of emotional exhaustion and wanting to die. Nothing like ideation or making a plan, just, it's overall not great in there because abusers ruin everything.
#1421: “How do I be a parent if I never really had one? And how do I not be the kind people write to advice columns about?
In which I attempt to reverse-engineer parenting advice from all the letters about setting boundaries with difficult family members. LEEEEEROY JENKINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
#1414: “How do you have a relationship conversation with someone who says you haven’t broken up but is acting like you have?
'Tis the season to stop making plans around people who are not planning around you.
Update: “I think my professors fucked me up.”
Evidence of life after escaping an abusive and toxic environment.
#1388: “A woman wants to bond with me over our shared history of an abusive man – and I’m struggling to be polite while also maintaining boundaries.”
Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is not your friend, and that's okay. Content note for mention (but not details) of past abusive relationships.
#1384: “Was I stating a boundary, or was I abusing?”
When someone is consistently mean to you, and you say "if you keep being mean to me, we might have to break up," may I humbly suggest that you are not The Problem.
5 Answers to “That’s Certainly A Question”
Answers to unpublishable questions, like a New Year's cleanse for upsetting letters.
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