I'm in love with a man who treats me badly, but I still go on.
Hello,
I posted this post in several other subs already and it made me wonder if this is actually some sort of (psychological) bdsm.
I just posted the very same post in the TrueOffMyChest sub, but it was removed. I hope I am not breaking any rules here.
Also sorry for my English, I am trying my best.
I am a 26 year old woman and all my life people have disrespected me. I think it has something to do with the fact that I was both raised strict + with emotional neglect by my parents; that I learned early that being quiet is the best strategy for survival (especially outside / in social situations) and that I was bullied at school for being an immigrant and also poor.
Do you know these people where you can just tell that they grew up rich, happy and probably popular ? And then there are those like me, where you can tell from the first glance that they are sad and that their lives were probably hard.
I don't want to turn this into a cry for pity, but this is just the situation.
For more than 2 years I have been in love with a man (38) that treats me like crap. What we have is barely even a situationship. He comes to my place every month or so and he sleeps over here. And then he leaves...and when I write again - he never writes first - he comes again.
He has told me some of the most painful things someone has ever told me. Including "I have the prettiest dancing girls around me, why should I be with you ? What do you have that they don't have ?"
( he is a dancing teacher)
He also said that he can smell it on my private parts that I have been with many men. He told me all men have this ability - to tell if a woman has had many men simply by the smell of her риssу and body. (I asked several men about this and they all told me that this is bs, he probably just wanted to hurt me)
But I still like it because he is attractive and popular and when I think about me 10 years ago at 16, no boy wanted to touch me. So, in a twisted way, I am grateful for him willing to have sex with me.
I have no idea how many other girls he is involved with. He may even have a family, I don't know.
The first time we slept together, it was at his place. I was on the last day of my period and I told him that, but he didn't care and basically pushed me to so it.
I decided to at least take a shower first and when I got into the bathroom and undressed, he had to come in to give me a towel. He looked at my naked body with a look no guy had ever looked at me before. A mix of dislike and annoyance.
After the sex he was disappointed. And then he basically made me leave in the middle of the night and didn't even want to pay the taxi for me, despite making much better money than me.
I remember how much that hurt me, although the memory of that evening itself is sort of blurry already because it was so traumatic that I guess I sort of dissociated.
But in a fuскed up way, I see him as a golden prince with his beautiful golden hair, and I enjoy it. Eventhough it hurts, and he will never want me.
But hey, at least "one of the cool kids" is willing to spend time with me. My 16 year old self would cry with joy that we came that far.
And I don't think I deserve more. I am not one of the pretty girls who work out and all of that. I am slim, but I don't work out and it shows. Men have always treated me like a second, third or fourth option and never like the girl they actually want. And maybe this is just the way it is. Maybe some of us are simply meant to be so low.
I could easily date someone else but all the other guys seem boring after him. He is also extremly smart, besides the cruelty. And I like that.