think my gf darvo’d me tonight but maybe i’m just sensitive?
we were watching a game show and trying to answer the questions. we both got the same one wrong and she was like “i did x and it was wrong” and i said “i did y and it was wrong too.” she was like “so you just guessed?” and i said no, i counted the negative spaces in the picture. she kept pushing being like “so you made a random guess” and then “okay well you’re out cos you got that one wrong” so i said, “you’re out too then.” she said she wasn’t bc she worked it out and i just made a random guess. i told her i didn’t appreciate it but i was trying to keep it light.
i also said i’d started this new book and it wasn’t horror so could i tell her about it, and she groaned and went “ugh is it sci fi or fantasy cos i don’t care. oh, go on tell me.” i said it was fine, she got pissy and demanded i tell her. so i did while she half listened.
then the game show came back on and it showed another puzzle and she snapped, “do you get this one?”
i do get a bit passive aggressive sometimes i admit that, but i snapped back that yeah i did, which prompted her to ask me what was wrong and i said i felt like she was putting me down.
she told me i was acting like a bitch, so i stopped engaging. she told me i was being childish so i stopped and told her that i felt like she was mocking me and putting me down and she knows i’m sensitive about my brain so it hurt me.
she told me that she didn’t mean it in a negative way and she wasn’t calling me stupid, that it was my own interpretation of her words and it wasn’t her problem that i took it the wrong way. that being snappish at her wasn’t fair because she can’t manage my emotions for me and my aura when i’m upset about something is upsetting to her and that i get defensive over everything.
then i told her (again) to not ever call me a bitch and that respect is important and it doesn’t feel like she respects me. she said she just says shit she doesn’t mean when she’s angry, though she did apologise and promise (again) to not do it again.
this is so fucking exhausting and demoralising. part of me knows how fucked up it is, part of me thinks it must be my problem.