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Opening jarscan be a nuisance.
But what if someone purposefully put the lids back on too tightly?
Thats what happened tothis woman.
She fought with her husband over him putting lids on jars too tightly.
After five years, the woman had enough and realized the husband might be doing this on purpose.
The jar lids werent the only thing the husband lied about.
That was no big deal except he was moving important documents that I needed for work.
He denied moving anything and swore he was just setting up his laptop and maybe using my printer.
I started taking pictures of my desk before I left for work and things were being moved.
He was the only one home.
We live in the suburbs and there is no public transport.
But perhaps his most concerning demand was about having kids.
As soon as we married he was pressuring me to have a child, the woman wrote.
His plan for child care was for me towatch the babywhile working.
I wanted to save a year of child care expenses before we talked about a baby.
He didnt want to.
Merriam-Webstereven named gaslighting the most overused word of 2022.
Today, people like to use it when someone simply disagrees with them.
While many people do misuse the word gaslight, its actual meaning is very serious.
TheNational Domestic Violence Hotlinedescribes gaslighting as an emotional abuse tactic that makes a victim question their reality.
Partners who gaslight do so because they want to have power and control over the other person.
The gaslighter manipulates the gaslightee emotionally until they start to question their feelings, instincts, and sanity.
When the victim no longer trusts their own perception, theyre more likely to stay in the abusive relationship.
Denial and forgetting are some gaslighting techniques.
The termgaslightcomes from a 1938 playAngel Streetby Patrick Hamilton.
It was later made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock titledGas Light.
In the film, a husband drives his wife crazy by making subtle changes to her environment.
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