- obedience test/’training’
- belittling/humiliation ritual/emotional abuse
- pathological ‘need’ to be the center of attention
- competitive instead of cooperative or supportive
- sadism
- status/hierarchy enforcement
- condescension
- contempt
- they don’t actually like or respect you as a person
- unreasonable entitlement
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“I dated someone like this, it took me a while to realize the pattern of them constantly humiliating me publicly. You realize it boosts their ego or they get a weird dopamine high from it. It’s awful.”
– u/TheBulkyModel, comment
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‘It feels like this person is just constantly putting their significant other through a humiliation ritual to see if they’ll stay.’
– u/neuroticdreamgirI, comment
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‘…this person is doing this to put them ‘in their place’, it’s like they can’t stand to see their ‘partner’ succeed…’
– u/Taigac, comment
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‘…stealing another person’s thunder and shifting focus to themselves. As always.’
– u/realitea1234, comment
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“It’s contempt.”
– u/Boom_chaka_laka, comment
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“May their love NEVER find me.”
– u/Professional_Sand192, comment
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‘With a ‘partner’ like this, who needs enemies?’
– u/MyNamesChakkaoofka, comment
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“My dad LOVED humiliating my mom and I swear he liked it even more when people noticed. He got to act all sweet like he was ‘just joking’ and it was all a laugh.”
– u/SharkGirl666, comment