I feel like I need to put this out there since I built my popularity/audience on this site on Gareth Emerson/ Gareth from Stranger Things.
Well, I dated him for a year and a half before breaking it off when he decided to isolate me and take of the ‘Stupid but Sweet Good Guy’ mask he had created in order to get me to sleep with him and ultimately pursue a relationship with him. And here is why (and I have evidence and witnesses to all of this):
-He doesn’t think Trans/Non-Binary people deserve basic respect nor should they be recognized as people
-He believes women should serve men and obey them
-He threatened to put his hands on me whenever I would push back on things he said
-I was regularly accused of cheating if I simply was nice to someone (male or female) who was not him
-He was mean to my cat (who he has several pictures with) and tried to lock her in rooms when he didn’t want to deal with her
-He believes very racist, very dangerous conspiracy theories
-He has a crippling dependency on weed. He smokes from morning to night. And it makes him mean and borderline violent.
Our mutual friends and I set up interventions to educate him but he genuinely didn’t have any desire to change. And when I broke up him, he decided to close on an apartment we had looked at together and then I was legally forced to live with him (both due to fear of messing up my credit, fear his family would sue me, and because he kept threatening to make me homeless)
After three months of being broken up (and being harassed and verbally abused. with other people around, mind you 🙃) I moved on and began seeing or roommate/mutual friend (who I am still with to this day)
Gwydion had been talking to someone on Tinder the whole time. He was trying to fly her out and get her to stay in our apartment. Meanwhile, he would be on the floor or our apartment NIGHTLY begging, crying, and screaming for me to take him back. He also flew out to Florida to meet up with A DIFFERENT GIRL (who I had met a year prior and she described him as ‘like a brother to her’) and tried to kiss/sleep with her. When it didn’t work work out, he hopped in my dms and bitched to me how it didn’t work out.
When he found out I was seeing someone else, he flipped his lid (after claiming to have changed) and accused me of cheating (which I literally never did) and continued to harass me and threaten me with homelessness while using his father to try and intimidate me.
When I found out he had no power to do that, I decided to take back the dignity he had stolen from me and told him to leave (with the backing of my roommates) and he went back to his mother and father.
He continued to harass me until I gave him every last bit of his things and I began to ignore him.
The last time I spoke to him/his parents was around tax time because he had a W2 come to the apartment. He moved to Utah last month.
I am finally, after almost a year, feeling like I can breathe. I finally feel like I’m coming out of the other end of the tunnel. I feel like I am finally free of the hold he had on me.
I am no longer his maid, mother, social media manager, PR manager, Editor, breadwinner, punching bag, and sex toy.
I am Kip DeVine. I am an artist. I am an author. I am someone’s daughter, sister, and friend.
I am funny. I am kind. I have so much love in my heart, and he will never take that away from me.
