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noname223

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Aug 18, 2020
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I think I am pretty sick of dating apps. I see that some women have this in their profile. "Bullying is my love language." I could imagine some men also have this attitude. For me it is a massive red flag.

The woman I came closer with on this dating app became more and more mean to me. At first, she never showed that this behavior. But she became more and more abusive.

I think I am someone who wants harmony in my private life. I could never imagine that me and my friends teased us in such ways. I have a very positive and supportive friend group. But there is no toxic positivity. We can also talk about negative stuff. Actually, I do this all the time. Lol.

We had friends who were teasing us. And these people didn't last long in our friend group.

I had a friend who told us he accidentally killed someone with his car when he was drunk, We thought it was a joke. But he assured us it wasn't a joke for a while. Though, it was a joke.
He didn't remain in our friend group for long. He also told me and my friends that he absolutely knew how I am feeling with my mental health issues. ( I had a psychosis to that time)
He pretended that despite the fact my mental health issues were way worse than his.

I also cut off this extremely right-wing person. With his eugenics rants, the disgusting way he talked about women, and his dehumanizing of certain minorities. It became sort of a feud between us. For a long time I thought I want to be tolerant to other people's opinions. Maybe to contribute that he doesn't spiral down further. But I realized there are boundaries. And he crossed them. He is very extreme on the right-wing political spectrum. And theoretically it is very hard to be more right-wing extreme than him. Now, he is lonely and I think noone likes him. He texted me a couple of times and I ignored him. I told him his way of living has a lot of advantages. If he goes to clubs and asks 20 women whether they want to fuck with him. There might be one or two mentally unstable women seeking for abusive relationships who actually do it with him. And he can boast about it to other people like he does. But there is a price he is going to pay. And this is that noone wants to be around of such an despicable and pathetic asshole. He texted me a couple of times and I simply ignored it. The way he texted me was pretty pathetic. He sort of begged me to continue the contact with me. I could even try to convert him. I told him that's a waste of time and that he is a lost cause. My actual friends told me I should have cut off the ties with him way earlier.
 
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Forever Sleep

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I've never heard that phrase. I know it happens but, I can't believe people even admit to it straight off. I thought the more common pattern was love bombing before they turn nasty.
 
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WhatCouldHaveBeen32

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Oct 12, 2024
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I think I am pretty sick of dating apps. I see that some women have this in their profile. "Bullying is my love language." I could imagine some men also have this attitude. For me it is a massive red flag.

The woman I came closer with on this dating app became more and more mean to me. At first, she never showed that this behavior. But she became more and more abusive.

I think I am someone who wants harmony in my private life. I could never imagine that me and my friends teased us in such ways. I have a very positive and supportive friend group. But there is no toxic positivity. We can also talk about negative stuff. Actually, I do this all the time. Lol.

We had friends who were teasing us. And these people didn't last long in our friend group.

I had a friend who told us he accidentally killed someone with his car when he was drunk, We thought it was a joke. But he assured us it wasn't a joke for a while. Though, it was a joke.
He didn't remain in our friend group for long. He also told me and my friends that he absolutely knew how I am feeling with my mental health issues. ( I had a psychosis to that time)
He pretended that despite the fact my mental health issues were way worse than his.

I also cut off this extremely right-wing person. With his eugenics rants, the disgusting way he talked about women, and his dehumanizing of certain minorities. It became sort of a feud between us. For a long time I thought I want to be tolerant to other people's opinions. Maybe to contribute that he doesn't spiral down further. But I realized there are boundaries. And he crossed them. He is very extreme on the right-wing political spectrum. And theoretically it is very hard to be more right-wing extreme than him. Now, he is lonely and I think noone likes him. He texted me a couple of times and I ignored him. I told him his way of living has a lot of advantages. If he goes to clubs and asks 20 women whether they want to fuck with him. There might be one or two mentally unstable women seeking for abusive relationships who actually do it with him. And he can boast about it to other people like he does. But there is a price he is going to pay. And this is that noone wants to be around of such an despicable and pathetic asshole. He texted me a couple of times and I simply ignored it. The way he texted me was pretty pathetic. He sort of begged me to continue the contact with me. I could even try to convert him. I told him that's a waste of time and that he is a lost cause. My actual friends told me I should have cut off the ties with him way earlier.
Well some women are perpetuating the misogyny and patriarchy and being assholes, because they are HUMANS. Most people however end up just like the right-wing person you cut off because of these interactions in dating apps which is INSANE to me.

I am a very positive and wholesome person myself and I find that toxic positivity sickens me and funny thing is, it's somewhat cousins with bullying as toxic positivity is just pampered up mental gymnastics bullying without being honest about it.
 
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Apr 4, 2025
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i've dated some people who bully as a "love language" and it ruins your self esteem. i hate that people think it's cute or fun, it's not. it makes you feel worthless and miserable.
 
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Santana Idaho

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Dec 16, 2024
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This interested me because I have a huge problem with not know when I'm about to take it too far. I've been around deep, desperate negativity my entire life. Bitchiness is apparently hereditary.

I'm not like the ones being cruel to feel better, but my normal is so skewed.

Most of the time, it's a joke that I take too far. Like your fav. eccentric sitcom character who takes pranks too far.

My avoidant attachment makes me distance myself because I just can't handle liking someone. Period. I'm demi, so everything starts off on a friend level. It doesn't have to be romantic to happen.

How I get my anxiety and discomfort out is by lightly teasing. Except.

I've joked that it's me, Helga Pataki, and Chucky's girlfriend from Rugrats. But I'm not doing it on purpose.

I'm not realizing in the moment how hurtful I'm being. Sometimes it's right after it comes out of my mouth. Sometimes it's years later like when I realized I accidentally bullied that one girl in high school. I did several things that embarrassed her, and I wasn't even trying. An example is when I gave her a fake name because I was in a phase of lying about my name and giving people different ones that were common and easier to pronounce because I hated having to repeat and spell and have people get all in my face, looking all confused and shit like it's fucking Welsh. Then she called me that in front of the whole class it was so embarrassing for both of us but mostly her. Like I probably shouldn't even count my embarrassment because no one even knew that I did that.

I'm so sorry, girl.
 
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X-sanguinate86

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Sep 26, 2025
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I think dating apps are having a negative impact on everyone. They seem to bring out terrible behaviours and "love bullying" definitely sounds like it's up there. But there are men who are masochists or like to be humiliated as well. It's crazy but there is even a form of dominatrix that doesn't even do anything overtly sexual yet has many clients.
 
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Nov 1, 2023
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I think dating apps are having a negative impact on everyone. They seem to bring out terrible behaviours and "love bullying" definitely sounds like it's up there. But there are men who are masochists or like to be humiliated as well. It's crazy but there is even a form of dominatrix that doesn't even do anything overtly sexual yet has many clients.
The people who are healthy and good partners match with someone and get off the platform, but the ones who aren't will stay on there for another millennia and ruin a couple people's lives in the process...
 
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shampoo sniffer

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Aug 10, 2025
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How bizarre, never heard that expression before.
 
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Seneca65AD

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Oct 28, 2025
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This is a big reason why being older can be a benefit. I could not imagine being younger and having to navigate dating and relationships in the age of social media. I get the impression that 1/2 the people on the dating sites are victims and the other 1/2 are psychos - and you can't tell which is which until you are in a relationship with them. Keep trying though - there are healthy relationships out there but sometimes you have to wade through a lot of messy situations to get to them.
 
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martyrdom

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Nov 3, 2025
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I am (or was, before what happened to me) the type of person who teases and "bullies" to express affection. But it was always socially intuitive and attentive to the person's limits. I never did it when it was no longer fun for both parties and I enjoyed people doing it to me. Some people definitely use it as a back handed way to abuse you, though.
 
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YandereMikuMistress

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Apr 26, 2023
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i've dated some people who bully as a "love language" and it ruins your self esteem. i hate that people think it's cute or fun, it's not. it makes you feel worthless and miserable.
"I just like ragebaiting her"

That'd not ragebaite your just degrading me at this point!!

Like frrr
 
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ABadPerson

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Oct 24, 2025
94
I've experienced this a lot, I feel as though our cases and many others on this forum might be more extreme: normally, people who do such things more or less understand the other person's boundaries but with vulnerable non-confrontational people who's boundaries are much more blurred they might feel as though they can 'get away' with more and more even if they are told to stop, as they simply don't see it as the person being genuine about their disapproval (or more like them believing we'll eventually approve it anyways).
 
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