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    Hi Anita,
    Frankly I can’t recall much of those abusive behaviour. I might have commented on her professional as well thinking that is of little value to t he society.comparing her profession to other helping professional.
    I guess I understand what you are saying, just cater for her emotions first before working on te task.
    As far as the letter. I have put it on the desk once I finished it. Will see if I still want to give her later on.
    Thanks so much for your insights!

    Chau
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    Dear Anita

    Thanks
    I have come up with a letter but just hesitating in whether I should give it to her. She seemed to be too scared to contact right before we stopped contacting which was just a week or so ago.
    I am afraid I would trigger her with any kind of conversation that I initiated.

    But for the things that I have said, for example, when she missed out dates, i would blame her for being careless, and said’ why couldn’t you just try another way and be less stubborn’ She would say ‘it’s hard for her to try new things’ and I usually would dismiss her feelings and said ‘it’s not that hard actually, give me your phone and let me set it up for you’

    Chau
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    Hi Anita

    I think this is very helpful for me. I will write her a hand written letter i think, so that she can at least have a choice of reading it or just chuck it away. I think hand letter reflects myself better as well.
    I am very grateful for your reply, a lot of my friends are trying to protect me by asking me not to think, but I guess I am someone who can’t stop thinking until i feel i have done whatever I should do. I feel that something is not right and that’s why i am still lingering with strange feelings.
    And yes I will need to observe my interaction with other people better, I just feel that I have the right to say things out and that I disregard what other people feel. It’s a hard lesson that I have to laern.
    Again I am very grateful for your reply. Feel free to give me more advice.

    Thanks

    Clara

    Chau
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    Thanks Anita, I think you have given me a very clear and helpful comments on how to judge the incident. It’s a great guiding light for me.

    I am reviewing what you were saying and I realized for the cheating itself it seems that I shouldn’t bear with the guilt.
    however as I review my previous interaction with her, I began to feel that I hit a few of the emotionally abusive pattern, for example, I did accuse her for being too sensitive, i did disregard her opinion, i did blame her for things that she seemed to be not doing right, and she did have a feeling that everything that i said was right, and she has lost a part of herself trying to follow my path.
    I did feel dominate and at times i did feel it’s a bit over sometime.
    And from the way she said she needed to leave me, she said she was very scared of me, it just fit the symptoms of someone being abused.
    I find it hard to really make peace with it, feeling that I might have abused her. I have always thought i was a compassionate and kind person, and i guess that’s where the guilt came from.

    My friends have been telling me that even if you were not good to her,the cheating itself makes the game even. But I guess it’s not ‘even’ that i am looking for, I kind of just want to know what had happened and understood myself better.

    Would you be able to help me understand the abusive pattern better?
    Thanks a lot for your advice.

    Chau
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    hi anita, thank you. it means a lot. i have been in this chaos for a period of time and am happy to hear your insights.
    appreciate it.
    chau

    Chau
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    Thanks for the comfort and confirmation. I am left with confusion when she said she hated me for making her go through the pain that I inflicted onto her. She thought the way that I accused her, digged details out and the tone of voice has left her wounded and she was now so hurt that she didnt know how to repair. I was empathetic and sorry that she had to go through this as well, I know no one wins in such situation and because of that, from time to time I felt I shouldn’t have expressed things like that. Or at least I should take a break to help with my own emotions before getting back together. I was not 100% into the relationship initially, and that made me wondered if I had done something wrong as well.
    Thanks for your confirmation, I think it’s her way of dealing with this break up,she did have high hopes for us yet this has gone so terribly wrong. I can understand that she needed to distract herself by having someone around as well as accusing me instead. It just hurts a lot. To a point where I cant judge normally

    Chau
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    Meaning I would accuse her of what she did with my friend, sometime tiny things trigggered me, for example when I passed by a certain place where I suspected they did meet, I would ask her in distrustful manner. Or I would tell her sometime i could imagine them kissing and felt hurt etc. I did also have nights when I was crying and she would accompany me at night.
    They are mainly accusation on her cheating, it was quite intense initially and we did try to take small breaks in between to ease them. We did make some progress but I guess they are not totally over by the time she said she needed to leave.

    Chau
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    I mean I did apologize for using physical force

    Chau
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    I didn’t call her names, may be I had looks and was not happy about some of her behaviors, but definitely not names. I always feel she is very sensitive to comments or anything that I say, which also made me quite stressful as well.
    I don’t think she was abused before, but I guess she just took my comments very seriously and was very eager to be the 100% gf to me.
    The fear became apparernt after the cheating. I did slap her when I knew she was still hiding some truth about the incident, while she said she had come clean. I regretted using any physical hurt and I didn’t apologize and promised never to happens again. It didn’t happens ever again.
    Adding up to that would be mg emotions, I was very hurt and I did accuse her of hee wrong doings, I can understand that she needs to leave to protect herself from all the pain, but it’s very difficult for me to accept that she immediately contacted my friend again and that my friend wanted to date her. I think they are now together and it hurt me a lot, it made me very hard to let go, although my ex said veey clearly that there would be no chance of getting back together

    Chau
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    The massive tantrums(which did involve accusing her for the wrong doings, crying very hard and accused her for hurting me) only happened after the cheating occurred. and she was unable to hold it anymore even though she wanted to make amend, and now she accused me for inflicting the hurt by accusing her of what she did. She said I digger things out and left her wounded.
    I began to get very confused since I feel I am woronged, yet I am accused of the emotions that came out from such wrongdoing. I don’t know if I am right by saying I didn’t do that bad to make her cheat on me, but in my heart I do feel I wasn’t that bad to hee to deserve it.

    In any case, thank you very much for the feedback, I am in a very lost and disorientated state.

    Chau
    Participant

    Thanks for the replies.
    In fact we are a pair of girls. So I am a woman as well. Sorry for not explaining earlier.
    The temper tantrums during the time when we we’re together didn’t involve anything physical. But from time to time I was impatient with some of her behaviour. For example she always missed out the date that we should meet, as she was reluctant to change, say change to using an elelectronic format of scheuling,so that she would be able to rememeber even when she leaves her notebook home. She thought I didn’t accept hee enough and had not been appreciative enough
    Being blunt only means I give very direct comments, instead of trying to wrap things in another way. Say if I see something that has gone wrong U would just say so directly, instead of waiting or saying things in a separate ocassion

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