#I know i'm not completely blamelss
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404-potato Ā· 4 years ago
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Iā€™m going to share something because I really need to get this off my chest. Please feel free to ignore this -Ā 
... I never really talked about it with anyone because I donā€™t think I really had it in me to fully acknowledge it even. ā€œEmbarrassedā€ is the best way to describe why quite honestly... as much as I hate to admit it
This... is how I ended up hating a series I loved. And the ship/fandom still makes me cringe because of a weirdlyĀ ā€œtraumatizingā€ (? maybe? not sure - i hate using that word/throwing it around;;;) incidents that wasnā€™t really even about the fandom directly at all?Ā Ā 
tw: relationship mess?Ā 
So before IronStrange, how I used to deal with liking series was through cosplaying. There was a good base for it where I lived and good chunk of my friends cosplay too or at least familiar with the community.
I got into this particular series (that I wonā€™t name here) because a friend (who I eventually got involved in a relationship with) was REALLY into it. It was great at first. I loved the series, it was fun, we cosplayed a pair she shipped hard at the time and at some point I liked it too (I think sheā€™s still a bit obsessed with that pairing actually).Ā 
Basically... she got obsessive.Ā 
It started with the little things like... very...uh... predictable... she didnā€™t want me to cosplay with other people. She didnā€™t want me to cosplay with anyone else for this particular pairing. Wanted me to prioritize her during cons... sort of made it impossible for me to be flexible to make plans with any other people. When confronted eventually (the ā€œhey so you know I only have so much time I can give to this hobby- if I make all these plans with you I donā€™t have time for other friends. We can still do things together but I want to spend time with other people tooā€)... she made it seem like she would give me space but when time came it was always ā€œIā€™m not saying you canā€™t go hang out with your friends but you promised this.ā€ ā€œI asked you first.ā€ ... which by promiseĀ btw was her mentioning it some months ago by passing. There were other little things here and there in the con/cos world like if any other friend wanted to put together a cosplay group and asked me she got upset I didnā€™t ask her to join? Her reasoning was thatĀ ā€œwell I always ask you so why donā€™t you.ā€ which seemed like demanding I feel the same way about her as she did for me. ... I know... sounds terrible of me & maybe I should be more sympathetic but... you canā€™t... demand someone to return how you feel about them or get upset when they donā€™t? (by the way this was way before we dated even - she also repeated denied she had any sort of feelings for me)
And I honestly didnā€™t recognize it at first or thought it wasnā€™t a big deal. I had lot of incident in the past where friends, people I dated, etc. made some... perhaps unjustified demands and I did my best to accommodate if I was willing or situation allowed it. I truly, maybe arrogantly, believed I could fully take care of myself because i always had been that one person who could take care of themselves. ... and there was no possible way anyone could ever ā€œtake advantage of meā€ so to say? in any way.Ā 
Then eventually we started dating. It was casual, lets see where it goes at first. ...then at some point we were in a relationship? ... quite frankly I donā€™t even remember how fully that came about. (I was not exactly in the best mental state that year due multiple disasters that was going on in my personal life - terrible timing because i let a lot of ā€œred flagsā€ go since I was so tired to fight).Ā 
She wanted me to stop talking to certain friends. One was a friend who we went on couple dates (and it didnā€™t work out, & by then this friend was dating someone else). But she still didnā€™t want me be friends with this person.Ā 
...And for those who think you shouldnā€™t be friends with your exes or not talk to them at all for some reason? F u. Yes it is fully possible to be friends with your ex if you both are at a good place etc. Esp if these people were not even exes per se it was like people you went on a date or two with that you both realized after ā€œhey yea weā€™re friends not anything moreā€.Ā 
Little by little I was talking to less and less people, interacted with less and less friends. I stopped cosplaying completely just so I didnā€™t have to deal with her getting upset at me. I didnā€™t have the energy. It felt like if I go anywhere I had to invite her. If I made any plans I should invite her. After a while I was so miserable to the point we had huge fights. I literally left the apartment to get away because she wasnā€™t listening to anything I was saying and all her rebuttal to everything was along the lines ofĀ ā€œItā€™s because i like you so muchā€ etc.Ā 
Yea this wholeĀ ā€œbeing lovedā€ thing to the point they want to spend so much time with you at all times may sound sweet in theory ...but for someone who is an only child (with no distant relatives in the same country), who is used to be left alone to live my life with very minimal supervision since 5 years old, needs a lot of time to myself naturally... itā€™s a nightmare. But if I said I wanted to be alone or need time to myself suggest Iā€™ll go to my parentā€™s (not my first choice but ya know... at this point i figured sheā€™ll flip if I said any friendā€™s)... sheā€™ll try to angrily (very recklessly) drive off saying sheā€™ll sleep at her work parking lot?? or I came back after one of these fights and she had all these scratches because apparently she tried to take a bath with wine and she fell?? ... I feel like I couldnā€™t even leave. ...typing this now, itā€™s kinda occurring to me I felt very stuck. She says I can go, I can do things, but... i mean... I canā€™t?? because then sheā€™ll go off and do something like this. That time she was physically hurt, I know I should feel bad but I honestly couldnā€™t feel bad. I felt suffocated. I was angry. I felt like she was doing this as some sort of attention seeking... thing.Ā 
Oh and lets not forget comments here and there about how I should let her know what iā€™m doing all the time, all the change of plans. Example: barely one month after I started at a new job, it was the holiday party. I did let her know Iā€™ll be trying to come home early but please eat without me/donā€™t wait up. Well as I was trying to leave, I got caught in conversation by my VP and then my CEO... i couldnā€™t just up and leave at that point?? And I couldnā€™t answer the 30+ calls I got from her. ...She was pissed. Saying how they waited for me to eat, how I said Iā€™ll be home early, etc.Ā I tried to explain what happened. Itā€™s a holiday party, its loud. I canā€™t keep looking at my phone when iā€™m talking to my CEO.Ā I did say iā€™ll try but shit happens and I canā€™t update her all the time 24/7...She said she got it but next day would still throw these passive aggressive remarks. Couple of her friends came to visit from out of town, we were supposed to spend the day together with them. I was obviously tired because of the holiday party still and I muttered like ā€œdamn iā€™m tiredā€ by passing... her automatic reaction was ā€œwell you shouldnā€™t have stayed out then.ā€ because in her words, during the argument that followed, we made plans to spend time with her friends so I should have prioritized it at all cost even over the job that I need. Nothing said I couldnā€™t just leave and come home early, I didnā€™t have to go in the first place. ...oh idk there is something called work politics??? esp when you are a minority girl working at 80~90%+ white male company.Ā 
Then it all boiled up to a particular bad fight where I said I need her to compromise because Iā€™m ready to lose it... I explained so many things from above that was genuinely becoming so unhealthy for me...Ā  How she said sheā€™ll be better in the past but she continued on, etc.Ā 
...lol... and the first thing she says to that is how she still doesnā€™t want me to cosplay with other people. I literally had a moment of thatā€™s whatā€™s so important to you??? SERIOUSLY? fuck this iā€™m not cosplaying ever again. period. Because at that point... because of the whole incident... or many incidents, I had such negative feeling towards the hobby I didnā€™t want to do it anyways... let alone this pairing she really liked... or the series etc.Ā  god there was... so many more... like the time we went to a bar to have fun, she over drank even when I told her multiple times hey maybe you should slow down... She basically did the whole ā€œdrinking excess as an excuse to say what she wants afterā€ ā€œiā€™m drunk so Iā€™m saying thisā€ thing. So in a very public place, the bar was crowded, there were people all around us, she yelled VERY loudly about how I didnā€™t seem to want to have sex with her anymore. When I asked her to keep quiet, please can we talk about this elsewhere... she KEPT GOING- LOUDLY YELLING. Hysterically crying. Honestly... considering everything going on... yea I didnā€™t want to. At some point it did occur to me I didnā€™t want to have sex at all (and that was whole another level of problem considering Iā€™ve always been very sexual person...) I mean I would have been totally willing to have a serious conversation about this but NOT AT A PUBLIC PLACE WITH STRANGERS ALL AROUND??? I was mortified. (this is also why I stopped going to nice bars... i used to enjoy them. After my early 20s, I didnā€™t drink to get drunk but I loved visiting creative bars and having a nice drink or two... well... not anymore lol)Ā  Again, these are not even 50% of all that happened with this person. .... honestly this relationship caused me so much issues personally I havenā€™t even begin to solve. Itā€™s actually to the point Iā€™m considering therapy.Ā 
But yea... sure it may not be the biggest of things but sometimes Iā€™m very resentful I canā€™t enjoy the series I used to enjoy because I just automatically have VERY negative emotions about it. Same thing with cosplay, a hobby I used to be very happily involved in to relieve stress. I now have this almost... fight or flight feeling when they are mentioned, i freeze... it sometimes feels like something is pressing down on your lungs making it impossible to breath.Ā Ā 
...And this is also why... I started tumblr and ended up seeking company of online people who doesnā€™t really know me because... yea now Iā€™m avoiding my friends at this point or mutuals with this person since... well, everyone thinks sheā€™s a very nice person, very good for me... because on surface level, yea she does really seem like she likes me, gets me all these nice gifts etc. They still comment from time to time about how I should be doing better. Treat her better. Because if someone screws up in a relationship, given my history and personality, its probably my doing. ...Okay. any normal situation, yea I would say thatā€™s probably true but this? this was not... yea.
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