I'd like to openly admit to the world that I am a survivor of domestic abuse. I thought I could deal with it, that it was somehow my fault why I'd get hit or get screamed at, that it was somehow my fault why I'd be backed up into a corner, curled up and praying for my life to end, there was no escape.
At the beginning he was so good to me, then everything changed a year or so in as he'd not pay me back for things. This escalated to him having me pay for large items on the promise that "it didn't matter who paid bc we were going to spend the rest ofour lives together". It was five years of this bullshit. Him robbing me blind.
When we broke up he refused to give me any of my belongings, or even compensate for the things he wanted to keep. He threw my belongings in the bin, and stole the rest, saying that I couldn't get them bc he'd just not let me in the house.
After looking through my finances I discovered that every one of my birthday meals were paid exclusively by myself. He'd pretend to pay me on his banking apps, only to cancel once he'd "shown" me that he was going to pay.
People like this break the trust that everyone else has to pick up and try to teach me how to trust again.
Now I'm stuck with some effects of all that shit. I saw a guy at the other side of the tunnel whilst I was on my way to work early morning, about his height, similar hair, and watching me. I almost lost my mind until I came up to 50ft of this man. It was a guy enjoying a greggs coffee, probably looking at me since you don't get that many signs of life that early in a morning.
Whenever I hear aloud alarm or someone shouts, my mind starts shutting down like all those times HE did that to me.
I had surgery on my leg a few months ago, he guilt tripped me into not being intimate... I was in pain bc of his threat to leave me. He convinced me over those 5 years that nobody else would have me, that I had an anger issue. I now know that this was a normal reaction to the constant lies, deceit and twisting things.
He left me after a threat, that he could no longer get anything out of me, quoted. Left after I refused to bail him out of £1500 of debt. I told him how I'd saved up money so hard for our future, only to have it taken away. He wanted my money, everything I'd saved up since I wouldn't spend it now there was no future. I refused.
And guess what, this has more plot than Eastenders.
Whilst I was in hospital, in pain, (pre-op) he hardly texted me, saying he was busy talking to someone else. Said that "if I was confirmed dying, he'd maybe visit me on my deathbed, to break up with mein person."
It gets better, he told me he was in love with a man who was a foreign exchange student who got stuck in America bc covid.
The truth, this man lives behind an anime girls drawing who does game streaming. Not a student from our university, the lies never ended. He had 'depression' and used that as an excuse to why he'd be horrible to me, yet be kind if he wanted to take advantage of me. Then he told me he pretends to be an anime girl on the internet. And he had a Tinder account to catfish lesbians into sending pictures of their breasts. I found out about previous times he'd attempt to cheat on me, 'attempt' bc they'd leave bc of his stalking nature.
I recently found out he came out as transgender.
He also took away my two beautiful rabbits, I paid for them, paid for vet bills etc. All bc he feels entitled to everything and he'll get away with it bc it's a "breakup not a divorce."
He started the relationship bc a girl (me) was interested and it was an opportunity for him to get laid and get what he wanted.
Some monsters can really live a double life to get what they want, without remorse for their victim.
The reason why I publish this story is to warn everybody else out there what people are capable of. I have a five year period of lies, time I can never regain. I don't have the support from my family to pursue this legally. He did get away with it. It's a sick truth that women like me (and men too) go through this shit and there's so much that goes unreported.
I told my friends and my mum's friends about it all, to try and not bottle it all up. What I found out made my blood boil. The majority had their own story of domestic violence to tell. All unreported. All unprosecuted. All kept a secret bc we're "silly to let that happen".
I wish I could do something, now he'll walk free and not have a single repercussion for what he did.
That is a man who knows he can punch a woman in the face and get away with it.