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When your partner calls your emotions manipulative

My partner gets angry when I cry and says I am being manipulative, so now I go to the bathroom to have feelings and I hate myself for it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fundamental right to feel without judgment has been stripped away, leaving only shame where vulnerability once lived.

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