As someone who followed both you and your now ex-husband, can you give at least a little insight to the situation so I can make an informed decision of if I should continue following him...? It seems like you got hurt and I don't want to keep following abusers.
hmmm I don't want to give specific details, because I believe him to be a mentally troubled man whose actions at what seem to be his worst (?) shouldn't be on blast in public. Really he needs help that I fear he's not going to seek.
But, I'm down to cover the basics. I think it's my right to state my experience, clearly, once. I didn't want to write about him unfairly, or untruly, or before I felt I understood what had happened.
He left me very suddenly, at the start of this year. Walks up to me out of the blue and says "I don't love you anymore." he told me he'd come back, the next day. Told me a lot of things just to make it 'easier' on me, as he phrased it later. Because I couldn't handle it, I guess (infantilization is a big theme). After he left me that day, in which he did not hug me goodbye or look me in the eye, I never saw him again. I asked much later, just to be allowed to hold his hand and say goodbye, but that was denied too. He has been cruel beyond my comprehension, quite frankly.
Three days later he and his new friends (considered them my friends-- whoops) came and moved his shit out of our room. Three days to go from married to single. No communication. Just Nova telling me how good it is for him AND for me (him telling me what I think, feel, and believe became a constant thing). You should also know for context that under his "care", by the time he left I had: No phone. No car. No money. No access to my healthcare. Three broken teeth. no clothes that fit. vitamin deficiencies. I kept begging him for help, but he just kept making up reasons why it was my fault, and he couldn't help. I believe he didn't want to. I think he couldn't handle the care he wanted to provide, couldn't handle that he couldn't do everything, and instead of being honest about that, his shame and resentment grew until he had to displace that hate onto me.
I only got on the right medications this last year or so. before that, both my serotonin and dopamine systems weren't functioning. I barely slept. I couldn't stand, eat, walk. I honestly could barely speak or form thoughts or sentences. if you followed me here, you noticed, I imagine, the many years where I didn't produce art. for years I suffered like that. All of this was true BEFORE he married me.
and I realized (with Deep, Dawning Horror) that the relationship had become very, very abusive over the last few years... IF it hadn't been fucked the whole time. Communication, trust, and honesty issues playing out a thousand times over on his part, despite me asking him to communicate, begging him to let me help him more. It led to secret resentment, gaslighting, and extremely controlling behaviors that I was super oblivious to, because I trusted him utterly... and he destroyed me. left me completely paralyzed, crushed my self worth. Tried to suffocate every emotion he saw, because, I think, he was afraid of them. He made me feel genuinely insane, like a terrible person, and deeply hated... all while denying things were wrong. And then, when he left, exponentially the story twisted around me being some ghoul who never cared about him. It's heartbreaking to handle that, still.
The things he said about my character after he left makes me wonder if he ever knew me. certainly, the man I thought I married is not the man that walked out that day. People around me, my family, everyone but the people who don't know me well, are just as confused. I loved him up until, and even after, he left. But I realized after he disappeared that I had been genuinely, deeply, scared of him. gods I wish that weren't true. and I don't think he is aware of the damage he's done, and is lashing out due to his past trauma. I've actually read my and his every single word to my therapist, because his gaslighting was so bad (I also shared it with many friends and asked them to review my words AS MUCH as his). At this point half a year of therapy has gone into my understanding of what has happened. Already I'm much stronger, so much more like my old self. When he left I was lost, confused, and utterly heartbroken.
also I'm pretty sure my family is going to end up paying for the divorce. lmao.
so though I hate that this is where our story appears it may end, he seems set on it right now, and i do consider his treatment of me to have been the worst abuse I've ever experienced. which is unfortunately saying something!
And there is the whole statement! For posterity. May the Gods guide him back to himself; to honesty and to health. and maybe also kick his ass a little bit