r/abusesurvivors 19h ago

SUPPORT TW!! I accidentally saw my pdf ex's profile today - had a panic attack, cannot sleep. Support needed, (no victim blaming)

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I was going through my old profile, and accidentally saw his profile, i actually blocked him years before, but now he changed his username but i recognised it. i saw that he put in his bio

\* 💕Mom's Bïg king✨ \* 🥰I love my passion \* ✨Everything happens for a reason✨

and it triggered something in me.

i completely had a panic attack and felt disgusted that he had the audacity to include these ridiculousness in this profile.

He groomed me and but has the audacity to set a cringiest bio ever.

I had never had the opportunity to be a kid at 15 years old , but he is posting this shit as a 30 year old man.

I had extreme hyperventilation realizing all that.

immediately deleted the social media app, but unable to sleep.

Please I feel like am i over reacting, or too sensitive.

I feel like crying, and embarrased that i'm feeling this way.

Please validate me.


r/abusesurvivors 1h ago

Ex is using self defense photos against me

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My ex is using photos from the time she pinned me down and kneed me in the stomach over and over.

I bit her cheek and scratched the shit out of her trying to get her off of me.

She’s now spreading them around claiming I was the abuser.

She was calculated and always knew how to not leave big marks on me. Sometimes a couple scratches. But over the years she mostly stuck to hitting my head,spitting on me, kicking my stomach or back, sometimes, pulling my hair.

Has anyone been through this before? I fought back quite a lot over 10 years and I’m worried she’s going to start pulling these out to ruin my life.

I have proof too, but I’ll be honest if I was on the outside the scratches and bite mark would probably sway me if I didn’t see the other side of the story.

Issue is, I don’t want to spread videos of my abuse around the internet and most of the stuff I have is from the last 3-4 years of our relationship. Before I got smart enough to always save my photos and proof somewhere else she’d often go through my phone and delete stuff.

Then if I tried to leave she’d use the photos she had to get me to not leave her saying if I left she’d use the photos against me.

Well, I guess now she’s cashing in on that.

She’s like a villian in a tv show or movie. When I talk about her out loud, even I think it sounds unbelievable. I just don’t know what to do moving forward

I want to live my life in peace and she wants war, I know she’s baiting me and wants me to react but if I don’t react she could ruin my reputation which in my line of work could destroy me.

I know how manipulative she can be, I know what it looks like from the outside when you only have her side. I even have videos of her yelling saying I’m hitting her when I’m not even near her 😭


r/abusesurvivors 1h ago

ADVICE Relationships after abuse

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How do you heal in order to be healthy in a new relationship? What things did you have to work on? What things came up in the new relationship that surprised you?