u/Classic_Lunch_8826

My partner and I have been together and living together for about two years. We can have pretty intense arguments sometimes, but nothing has ever become physical.

A few days ago we were staying at my grandmother’s house for vacation. We got into an argument over plans for the evening. I wanted to walk my dog, and he thought it was too late, that dinner was about to happen, and that “everything always revolves around the dog.” He said it in a very irritated and condescending tone, which really upset me.

I told him he didn’t get to speak to me like that, then I went upstairs to take a shower and calm down because I felt like crying and didn’t want to do that in front of my family. I locked the bathroom door because I knew there was a good chance he would follow me to continue the argument.

A few minutes later he knocked. I didn’t answer. He walked away for a moment, and then I heard noises near the lock.

The next second he was standing inside the bathroom smiling at me. He had apparently used a screwdriver he found at my grandmother’s house to force the lock open.

I immediately panicked and got angry and told him to get out, but he just stood there acting amused by the whole thing. I ended up screaming at him, getting out of the shower naked, and physically pushing him out so I could lock the door again.

We talked about it afterward, and I had a really hard time making him understand why it scared me so much. In the moment I called him a creep and a psychopath, which he says was a massive overreaction. His argument is basically that we’re a couple, we already share bathrooms and intimacy all the time, and that this “wasn’t a big deal.” He eventually apologized, but it didn’t feel very sincere to me because he still seems to think I’m the one overreacting.

Ever since it happened I’ve felt deeply uncomfortable about the whole thing.

I was in an abusive relationship in the past, so I’m very sensitive to violations of boundaries and loss of privacy/control.

Am I overreacting?

My partner and I have been together and living together for about two years. We can have pretty intense arguments sometimes, but nothing has ever become physical.

A few days ago we were staying at my grandmother’s house for vacation. We got into an argument over plans for the evening. I wanted to walk my dog, and he thought it was too late, that dinner was about to happen, and that “everything always revolves around the dog.” He said it in a very irritated and condescending tone, which really upset me.

I told him he didn’t get to speak to me like that, then I went upstairs to take a shower and calm down because I felt like crying and didn’t want to do that in front of my family. I locked the bathroom door because I knew there was a good chance he would follow me to continue the argument.

A few minutes later he knocked. I didn’t answer. He walked away for a moment, and then I heard noises near the lock.

The next second he was standing inside the bathroom smiling at me. He had apparently used a screwdriver he found at my grandmother’s house to force the lock open.

I immediately panicked and got angry and told him to get out, but he just stood there acting amused by the whole thing. I ended up screaming at him, getting out of the shower naked, and physically pushing him out so I could lock the door again.

We talked about it afterward, and I had a really hard time making him understand why it scared me so much. In the moment I called him a creep and a psychopath, which he says was a massive overreaction. His argument is basically that we’re a couple, we already share bathrooms and intimacy all the time, and that this “wasn’t a big deal.” He eventually apologized, but it didn’t feel very sincere to me because he still seems to think I’m the one overreacting.

Ever since it happened I’ve felt deeply uncomfortable about the whole thing.

I was in an abusive relationship in the past, so I’m very sensitive to violations of boundaries and loss of privacy/control.

Am I overreacting?