Hi guys, I’m (20F) a newly single woman who just found this subreddit recently. I’ve been in a relationship for over a year with a man 11 years older who literally wanted me to be his dog. Fun fact: he treated his actual dog much better. The amount of guilt tripping and emotional manipulation that occurred was just unbearable. He would lie and warp the truth to get angry and then justify it with the lies he came up with in his head. He isolated me from my community and literally got mad at me for hugging guys (what??????). It was just so ridiculous. I couldn’t keep up and we broke up. I’ve been feeling really empty and upset about it but honest to God this subreddit has made me open my eyes to how much I do not deserve what happened. Honestly feel like I may have been lied to about who he was this entire time (it’s a LDR & we only met once) so yeah. Anyway, thank you lovely gals so much for making me realize I deserve more and that there’s really no reason to settle in love!