She admitted that she overreacted and lashed out at you because you stumbled over one of her sore spots. That is different from looking for a fight or deliberately twisting your words to make you an ego maniac or trying to prove you're anything. This is exactly what I mean, Charles.
She says she was being unfair to you and some part of you thinks that means she must be doing it on purpose, but that's just not true.
It still hurts. You've every right to be sick of it, and you've every right to take a break, even if you don't feel like you can, and to tell her off like you did. I'm not saying this to make it your responsibility to untangle every flare-up, I swear. It's really not, and she did react badly, and if she hadn't apologized already I'd have insisted on it. But she doesn't have it out for you, and I just...I think it might hurt less if you didn't see things through that lens, that's all.
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She says she was being unfair to you and some part of you thinks that means she must be doing it on purpose, but that's just not true.
It still hurts. You've every right to be sick of it, and you've every right to take a break, even if you don't feel like you can, and to tell her off like you did. I'm not saying this to make it your responsibility to untangle every flare-up, I swear. It's really not, and she did react badly, and if she hadn't apologized already I'd have insisted on it. But she doesn't have it out for you, and I just...I think it might hurt less if you didn't see things through that lens, that's all.