My Experience:

Hi, my name is Chiara. I am 20 years old and from Melbourne, Australia. I broke up with my long distance ex, DH from Perth around a year ago, because he called me fat and wouldn’t apologise-also for a lot of other reasons, which I shall mention here. Instead, He was like, we are done. This year, he pops out of nowhere like it never happened. He acted overly romantic. Then he ignored most of my texts and posted an annoyed emoji. Like hot n cold. So fake. He showed lots of toxic behaviours, including being controlling, gaslighting about money / being sensitive and getting mad over little things. He also would make me pay for most of the flights and didn’t visit me in my own city as much, which wasn’t very fair. Yeah. He paid for his own petrol, but everyone does that. It’s not really a special favour. He said he was going on a 2 year holiday, around the world, which would cost 200 K. Like no one could afford that-not even Prince Harry. This year, he tells me he is living in Australia. So, he lied about his 2 year trip. Probably is with some other girl. Additionally, he sped on the wrong side of the road-showing no or little concern for my safety. Lots of other things… I kept gaslighting myself that I was to blame-not him. I said we could be friends and email each other, which we did for a short time, but then he stopped emailing me. For some reason, I still can’t stop thinking about him. I don’t want to be so depressed.