What's the last empowering thing you've done? I told my crush who's a married man that his wife is ugly, it's true because she looks like a cracked

Well I have been verbally and mentally abused consistently by my girlfriend since from almost the beginning, almost 8 years, and I finally ended it a few days ago. Men get abused too, not just women. But really no one but myself to blame for putting up with it for so long. Just my fear of being alone again made me stay with her, but oh well, alone again..