I have been with a girl for four years, ever since she was 17. She is now 21 and I have been trying to save her all this time because i loved her. This girl is very caring, intelligent (class valedictorian) and beautiful. But she has been extremely negative, pessimistic and angry about 50% of the time. I have reached my limit and my boundaries are stretched. I do have a gigantic curiosity of what i have allowed my self to deal with for all these years. she has come to a point of making her own money and she is growing highly disrespectful. I am happy that she finally has something to make her happy besides my company but she is getting way obnoxious now to the point where i have to let her go. The reason i have stuck around this long is because i have known her since she was seventeen and it feels like i want the best for her and it is my duty to help this girl for some reason. I need someone with psychological expertise to help me understand what she has been hiding from me about her mental ailment all these years.
List of my experiences with her:
when we first met she was needy, clingy, jealous, angry
says nothing in life makes her happy
she showed her love for me when i had no true friends to help me in my lowest times of need. she stuck by my side to be there for me
she is caring towards me in a since when i need she gives or she protects me from the negativity of others
uses projective identification. she came to me with bags knowing she has anger issues but tries to depress me by calling me miserable. also says “we” should go to counseling but we are not married nor have i had to argue as much with any of my previous girlfriends?
talks about me in bad ways to her friends and family but runs to “only” me if she feels like trying to hurt herself by taking too much medicine. then after i save her because i love her a few days later she will talk about me bad again and this hurts me (trying to hurt herself happened only once that i know)
after our brief separation i noticed cuts on her arm and she denies knowing how they got there. this visual lasted about two months during the four years knowing her
has been hospitalized at the age of 14 for severe depression
loves to call me then talk over me and disagree with anything i have to say which leaves me feeling drained and panicky. after i think it makes her feel she accomplished something by putting me in an icky negative feeling
if she misunderstands me i try to communicate why i said what i said for clearer communication but she interjects and talks over me saying my opinion is stupid and she connects more with her other friends. in all reality i am her only true friend and this give me minor anxiety
her mother, brother, grandmother and father put her out four different times. I let her stay every time then she calls a friend on the phone one day to tell an associate of hers im a bad person
every happy event i plan at the beach or restaurant is turned into morbid misery and she will find one thing to be unhappy about to make rain pour on it
i convinced her after four years to get anger counseling or i would leave her and she has. (she is now telling me i am bad for her and she has boundaries??)
she chooses pessimism over optimism. i am a positive person and relaxed non confrontational
never finds my jokes funny. she will be passive aggressive and be way non humorous
if you don’t follow her book studies or her “opinion” she gets evil and irate saying we all are stupid people
she HATES when i bring up the past as a source of proof of her reputation of evil only after she does something negative.
loves to destroy my personal things numerous amounts of times and then denies she knows anything about what happened.
anything positive i have going on in my life she tears it down as if im not doing something right or im not doing enough. i could be getting a noble peace prize in one day and she will say that’s nice but why is it special or that doesn’t mean their going to give you the prize tomorrow..
always gets jealous whenever i say a friend did something for me. she responds i should recognize when she does things for me which i always do
she is a persistent liar. i asked her to be honest to help her then i caught her in a lie about getting medication from her friend who suffers from depression.
she admits that she starts the majority of the arguments and she is aware a little now that she has anger but thinks its stems from her parents divorce MANY years ago. she also admits i have been her number one person who has helped her the most