• He just snaps at me for every little thing.
• He doesn't physically hit me so he isn't doing anything wrong.
• I don't dress as nice as his exgirlfriend does.

• I am to make direct and complete eye contact with him every time he is speaking to me or I am speaking to him. If I do not make direct and complete eye contact with him or look away at any point then I am lying to him which means I am cheating on him.
• He doesn't trust me as far as he can throw me.
• I'm a spade.
• I need to stop working from home and spend more time sitting next to him on the couch.
• I closed my small business down for him but he threw me out of the house anyway.

• The first time he had sex with his ex-girlfriend she dumped him so we can not have sex or I will dump him.
• I am expected to attend all family events both local and out of town even though we've never been intimate. 
• We have been dating for quite some time. None of his friends know who I am.
• Several of his friends think that I am an escort.
• He has prior commitments with his friends on every holiday or special occasion. I am not part of those traditions so I am not invited to attend.
• He refuses to pay rent.
• I need to drop everything I'm doing and pay more attention to him.
• I have to shut down my small business so that I can spend more time sitting on the couch with him.
• I am not allowed to be sick or unhappy.
• It is my job to make sure that he smiles so that he doesn't get sad.
• My cat is not allowed to be on the couch.
• Cigars smell good and smoking them in the house is a necessity.

• I am allergic to certain foods but I have to eat them so that I don't cause problems for other people we are with while we are out ordering in a restaurant.
• I am not allowed to go to game night because I will make other men uncomfortable with my presence. He is protecting me by not inviting me.
• The fact that I am interested in him sexually turns him off. He would much prefer it if I were utterly disgusted by him.
• I'm not allowed to pay bills. If he can't afford it then we can't have it. Even if I have the money to do so.
• I am expected to perform sexual acts at a moments notice even if I am uncomfortable or sick.

• I take everything he says the wrong way.
• He goes out of his way to prove me wrong so that I can see that he really cares about me.

• its easier to just sit outside away from the annoyance of doing everything incorrect.

• He talks to me like I'm an employee. He needs to know that I'm "on board" with everything he wants me doing. 
• If I don't behave he withholds intimacy from me.
• He doesn't call me.
• He doesn't invite me to go anywhere with him even if his friends ask him where I am.
• He would rather play video games then have me around.

• He will speak to me for hours about a topic that I know nothing about and then get upset when I don't have anything to say about it.

• I need to straighten my act up if I ever want him to get me a ring
• I need to make sure that all of my things are out of the washer and dryer as soon as they are done so that he doesn't have to touch them when he has to do his laundry.
• Only his cat is allowed to sleep in the bed with us. My cat has to stay in the living room. 
• My bedroom is a disaster and it embarrasses him when his family visits.

• He already knows exactly how he wants everything to be done for our wedding so there's no reason for me to even think about picking anything out that I might want for it.
• The only color Christmas tree that is allowed in his home is green. All Christmas ornaments should be red and green and maybe gold if they are nice enough.
• I thought that maybe since he was calling me all the time and that we were sleeping together that maybe we would be a couple again but it turns out that he's still engaged to someone else and has no intentions of leaving her.
• Three months into the relationship it turns out that he only has driving privileges since he got a dui five months ago. So now I have to drive us everywhere.