about 2 months ago I finally called off a relationship of about 10 months. As I'm continuing to process it I'm only further realizing how toxic and emotionally manipulative my partner was. I feel like I was lured into a relationship with someone extremely welcoming and open-minded, however as time kept going by, this person kept showing themselves to be increasingly demanding to the point of making me feel like I was never good enough, would engage in conflict with me extremely frequently and deny me whenever I'd question if having so much conflict in a relationship was healthy, and use tactics like silent treatment and pouting. I really loved this person at the time, to the point where I felt like all this was a measly sacrifice in the grand scheme of things, but this ultimately meant that I kept enabling this behaviour even further.
As I move forward, I'm very happy to no longer be with this person, but I can't help but feel a lot of anger build up inside me when I think about them now. I look back at the good times and can't help but get angry at myself for not standing up for myself and always playing into their demands, as well as angry at them for taking the liberty of having their way with me and making me feel like I'm always lacking something...