You should NEVER put up with this behavior.
At one point years ago I was adrift, depressed—and flattered that a fairy-tale-handsome guy I met at a club one night was into me. Like, really into me. He set up an adorable picnic for our first date. He bought me a fancy cocktail dress for our third. And a few weeks later, he told me he loved me.
Women in controlling or coercive relationships usually don’t describe them that way, at least not initially, says Beth Hassett, executive director and CEO of WEAVE, a domestic-violence organization in California. “They know something isn’t right in the relationship, but they think, ‘Well, he’s never hit me.’ ”Unhealthy behavior usually starts in subtle and surprising ways, like love-bombing, for instance.
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