Triumph

It's good that you got out Jenuine. If I might intrude, feel free not to answer. How long and why did you stay in an abusive relationship? I suppose I should add something of myself. I broke off a relationship with my sister about 1 year ago. She had been using me as an emotional crutch for almost a decade. I went through a very terrible event 7 years ago, that destroyed me emotionally. It made it very difficult for me to understand that whenever she belittled me, or substituted her wishes for my own, that it wasn't somehow my fault. So I would apologize, conform and accept responsibility. One night we got into a fight about math of all things. She is a high school science teach and was getting ready to teach a physics class. She asked for my input. I have about 10,000 hours of doing college level math, caculus I and up. It is something I am good at, something I am somewhat proud of, and it is knowledge I have that in no way she could compete with. And she shit all over my thoughts. She had been more abusive than normal of recent, and I had for the first time begun to think it wasn't my fault. When she challenged me on math, I knew with certainty, that it wasn't my fault. When it was clear I would not cower, and she saw that she could not make me doubt something I knew so well. She used the L word in vain to try and guilt me into conforming myself to her wishes, and become the apologetic crutch of a brother she had used for so long. I lost my temper on her, and I am not ashamed of it. She had no fucking idea what love is. And I told her so before storming out of the room. I haven't seen her since.