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I do not feel good about asking this. It makes me feel slimy and gross.

I am especially unhappy with having to ask so bluntly and crassly; in order to fit the one-sentence format for a GAG "question title".

I would like to explain why I am posting this. ( Feel free to just answer. Nothing below is critical for you to know).

I've always had many female friends. Most of my closest friendships since I was 13 years old have been friendships with women. I'm generally someone who people feel comfortable confiding in. I have known SO many wonderful women who have been in abusive relationships. I am as intimately familiar with the scars that can leave on a woman's psyche as anyone can be, short of first-hand experience or formal training.

On GAG I've spoken to dozens of women who were:
-In abusive relationships;
-had escaped from an abusive relationship;
-were currently in the early stages of a relationship with a guy who was showing signs he was likely to be abusive;
- or were in relationships which were clearly abusive, but were in denial; or genuinely didn't realize their relationship was "abusive."

The nature of abuse varies widely; as does the "sort" of woman. It varies from a boyfriend who is emotionally manipulative and has boundary issues... all the way up to sadists monsters who would quite literally torture their girlfriends. I have nightmares about some of these women's stories (three of them in particular).

I am under no illusions about abusive relationships being uncommon. That upsets me more than I can put into words. I also know that there have been attempts to find out "just how common". I also understand that a GAG poll is far from scientific.

**I would really appreciate if you would click an answer to the "poll" even if you have no inclination to write anything. Women who haven't been in abusive relationships, please just click that option before moving on to the next question.**

Thanks

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I was living with a girlfriend who got paranoid jealous when she was drinking. She accused me of having affairs with women in three different states, all at least 1,000 miles away, even though I left home every day not earlier than 9 am and returned every day not later than 7 pm. So glad that's history!

There is nothing as aggravating as being accused of something of which you are entirely innocent, there is obviously no proof to fuel the suspicions, but your partner is still unrelenting with the accusations. There's your sign! Have you had this experience?

For longer than I remember, I had this memory of once meeting a woman on a chat site, not unlike this one.
We chatted and we flirted for three evenings straight, only for her to abruptly disappear and never return ever again, prompting me to also move on with my life soon thereafter.

I don't remember any specifics other than the fact that we had great chemistry and that this "memory" dates back somewhere to my very early twenties.
It would be a very typical encounter for me, if it indeed happened around that time in my life so I never really questioned the validity of this "memory".

But the blurriness bugged me, and the more I tried to remember, the more I realized that I have absolutely no recollection of information such as:
What site was this? Why I was on there in the first place? Was I drunk for much of it?
Was it maybe a fresh find that I have simply abandoned because of that experience, and that is why the rest of my recollection is so scarce?

Over time I started to think that this experience of mine didn't even happen for real.
That, perhaps, at one point I simply had a very vivid but also quite a mundane dream that I eventually started interpreting as a memory of a real event that took place.

Do you have any "fake" memories of your own?
Something you swear you remember but when you mention it to your friends they all go like "you high or something? that certainly did NOT happen!"?