Was his his dry humour or emotional abuse?
A female age 30-35, anonymous writes: Dry humour or emotional abuse? I am thinking that I possibly misunderstood my ex, but I would appreciate your advice. I would like to say that I am a very sensitive soul that tends to take things to heart. My ex always told me not to take anything he said too seriously, but with a couple of his comments he made while we were partners I totally did. When we were together, he said something I mentioned was ‘the stupidest thing he had ever heard’. He didn’t say it nastily or anything, but it upset me and I don’t think that was his intention. Another occasion, I had decorated my parent’s room and he said he ‘hated everything I had done to it’. Again, I’m not sure if it was dry humour or he was being unkind, but I took it personally and didn’t know how to respond. I felt quite shocked when he said it. I asked him what he hated about the room. Not long after I spoke to one of my closest friends about it, who told me to stop being so ridiculous it was jus
