at least I thought

Let it go — It was the moment I surrendered the outcomes and realized surrendering control is an active task, is when the tide started turning. I noticed there was tension at my current work , for the last mont…

Praised as "gifted" — TL;DR: Did you recieve praise as a "gifted" child? Did your family never encourage effort and only praised results? As an adult, because of this, do you now find doing the things you were praised for …

Can I level with yall for a minute? — I knew everything about him. His favorite color, his favorite food, what he liked to do, down to the books he’d read. I met his family (not all, but the majority), I met the one person he loves more t…

My(20F) boyfriend(19M) says our sex is bad and has made me insecure beyond repair — Is this fixable at this point? My 20F boyfriend 19M tells me that my pussy doesn’t feel good in his words “my pussy is trash”. We have been together for about a year and 3 months. He tells me that it’…

All roads lead to Rome, huh? — Update to this [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/1sahmmf/this_is_it_my_final_day/). Basically, I was ready to leave. So, it's been three days since I made the post, and a l…

Lied to for 9 months by My (28F) Fiancé (29M) — My soon to be husband (28M) misled me for 9 months on the timeframe to have children. I’ll start with I know I’m very headstrong about the plans in my life. He just wants to do anything to make me hap…

My ex just broke up with me of 3 years. — my ex and i have been together through highschool and the first year of college. i admit throughout our relationship i wasn’t the greatest bf at times i was insecure and jealous. we took a break a yea…

There’s nothing that makes me lose hope of getting her back more than when family members start removing me from social media. — When we broke up it seemed it was just a matter of us drifting apart, but there was still love, at least I thought so. But since we’ve broken up and have gone “no contact”, I’ve noticed people who I…

"The last FA I dated shit tested me early on, dumping some not so flattering info about herself just to see how I would react." • Mine has done it throughout all 4 years! I faltered a few times, yes…

Is this love or just the comfort of being chosen? I'm 23M working in Bangalore and have always been the type who never dated or had much experience with girls. To change that, I started attending soc…

Her and I never spoke about getting together. Which again I don’t care about her moving on. She can fuck who she wants but morally my brother? Who has essentially looked at her as a younger sister sin…

Hey, just wanna say I’m sorry. I think I kind of know what you’re going through and am in the same situation. My ex broke up with me about a month ago. We were together for 8 months and loved each oth…

I still have hope and I feel distraught about everything honestly. I still think he’s the love of my life. Our problems weren’t big you know, little small quarrels (or at least I thought they were) hi…