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How do I tell the difference between if I’m being abused or if I’m the abuser or if we both are abusing each other?
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Anonymous 8w

Have you heard of the term reactive abuse? (It’s not what it sounds like)

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Anonymous 8w

Read another way; “Am I the victim or victimizer?” Logically, you are both and neither. You have not been hurt, in a definable way; and you have not injured another, in a definable way. But you have hurt yourself by obsessively imagining yourself being injured and injuring another. This makes you both the victimizer and victim - paradoxically. Read another way: You may be bipolar, switching from manic and depressive states.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

I have looked up reactive abuse and it makes me think that’s what’s happening especially since one other time I had made my self food that took 2 hours to make once I was done I had to quickly eat so I could go to bed for work and she said really your not going to do the dishes even though in the beginning we agreed I do trash she does dishes and her saying that threw me into a raging fit that I broke the dish washer and she kept screaming at me so I pointed some knives that I had grabbed from

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

The dish washer and said leave me the eff alone before I end up hurting you and she won’t stop bringing it up saying I threaten her life when really it was bad timing and her not leaving me alone

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

I have a pretty good control over my anger. I only lash out at my sister and I’ve only started to lash out since april. The only things that’s changed is our cousin has moved in and I have gotten my birth control taken out since then

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