"Looking back, there were so many red flags earlier, but the one I first realized at the time was when we had gone shopping, and it had started pouring down rain out of nowhere. Everything is your fault if you're in an abusive relationship, according to your abuser. Neither of us had an umbrella or anything because the weather had changed so rapidly; he then started screaming at me in the train station so badly one of the security guards had to intervene. I realized I was 18 years old, in the prime of my life, and was standing there, crying and apologizing to a man for the weather while strangers attempted to diffuse his anger at me, fearing the consequences. That same night a woman sat next to me on the busy train held my hand quietly as he screamed at me across the aisle."
"I was on a recumbent exercise bike one day, peddling at a moderate pace with a higher resistance. He saw me and told me I was exercising wrong. He said that I wouldn't even break a sweat like that, and I was wasting my time. I told him I was doing high-resistance cardio. He left for work, and a short while later texted me saying that this is why I was 'fat' (I wasn't) and I was so f***ing lazy. Seeing him get so angry to the point where he was swearing at me and calling me 'fat,' all because I wasn't exercising the way he thought I should be, it was definitely an eye-opener. Unfortunately, I stuck around for a couple of years after that."
"There were many red flags stemming from pictures of other women on his phone in their underwear and bikinis, yet they were 'just friends,' to him telling me he resents me for not letting him go out with and c..."
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