Whenever I bring up something that hurt me, the conversation never actually stays on the thing I raised. It shifts immediately to how I\'m "too sensitive", how I "always make everything a big deal", how "nobody can say anything to you without you crying". And I leave those conversations questioning whether I even have the right to feel what I felt.
Last week I cried because he made a sarcastic comment about my cooking in front of his friends. I told him later that it embarrassed me. He laughed and said I was being childish. I sat with that for three days wondering if he was right. Then I started Googling.
The word "gaslighting" kept coming up. I don\'t want to use that word loosely — I know it means something specific and serious. But some of what I read felt painfully familiar: making you doubt your own perception, making you feel that your emotional reactions are the problem rather than the behaviour that caused them. Has anyone been in a situation like this? Was it gaslighting, or am I genuinely just too emotional? I genuinely don\'t know anymore.