Swati

33 | Married | Consultant

Coming face to face with a repressed childhood memory, of being touched inappropriately by a known uncle, during my adulthood, while starting to date a person with a difficult childhood, was the beginning of a tumultuous relationship. I felt responsible for healing his childhood trauma, which made it difficult for me to end it.
So many attempts to take a break and think over were failed because he wouldn't let me. It had become passive and emotionally abusive that it broke my confidence. Constant stress had taken a toll on me not just mentally but physically too. It had made me numb and my face was visibly distressed and shrivelled up.
Only once did the relationship end I realised how toxic and controlling it was, so much so that it took a long time for me to accept that I was neither the perpetrator nor selfish to want better.