My boyfriend.... slapped me.

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First of all, try not to take all of the replies on here seriously. I'm sensing a "why are the girls staying with the jerks" attitude from some posts but that's a common attitude you will find throughout the Love and Dating Forum.

Second, relationships are NOT about what others think...it's about what you think. If you overanalyze too much you will find yourself more thinking about how others are judging your relationships instead of focusing on who's important here and that is Y-O-U.

I was once in a similar relationship like yours with a boyfriend that NOBODY approved of. You know what eventually led me to dump him wasnt their constant hatred of him...it was my disatisfaction and the stress I had with being with him. The people who hated him are unaware of how abusive and threatening he got with me but I consider that a good thing as it allowed me and me alone to make the choice of dumping him on my terms...even if it did took some time to do.

Another thing to remember: relationships are not about security...it should be about happiness. If outside of the hitting incident, you are happy to be around this guy, then you are willing to work things out, right? However if the hitting incident is just a segment of the stress (you did say he was going into therapy right?) being placed upon you, then that is the time to think. If you have attempted to find a way out and it's only adding to the stress then...consider this: I dont know how long it was between the time you were with this guy and the time you were the other really abusive one. Perhaps you jumped back into relationships too soon? Trust is something that is difficult and long to get back again, I know that. Plus does he know what your pasts relationships were like? If he really wants to help you build that trust with him than he will. Otherwise, you should consider how much stress this is bringing about for you and whether or not it is worth dealing with for much longer.

It's all about whether or not you are truly happy to be with him.

I know this doesn't seem to be the case with the OP, but if a boyfriend is abusive to you, you can trick yourself into thinking you're 'truely happy' to be with someone when you're in reality just afraid of him/afraid to be alone/have low self esteem.

This.

What she's saying clearly describe an accident.

However, if that really is the way it went down. OP you may want to consider making sure that you're not in the position to have to rely on anyone else. I know finding a job can be hard with AS but you should try to make yourself in the position where you're not homeless if you break up with a boyfriend.

Also.. the therapy thing may be of help to you if past abusive boyfriends can affect your current relationship like this. Sounds like something fairly extreme to mistake an accident for something intentional. For your current boyfriends good and your own. If you really thought he hit you, you should have left for your own safety no matter how wrong the mentallity was and especially not consider "staying" just because you get frustrated by lack of nonresponsiveness to your posts.

In this case, false alarm and no harm done, in the future, who knows?

i call fake on the "i happened to record all this unbeknownst to myself and it conveniently proves it was an accident" thing. i'm sorry. i wouldn't invest myself too much about this, i've had so many girlfriends go through this and listen to me and agree and find evidence that i was wrong just the next day, that i have doubts.

I thought this too. Seems too convenient.
Still, it's easier to believe the person you think you love isn't a violent person.

It's OK. I've had to show the video to about seventeen friends to prove I'm not making it up. I'd probably share the link here if I felt comfortable. I don't even talk to anyone from this board outside of the board, I'm new to posting at this particular board and it's OK either way.

I'm just glad my therapist thought it was obviously an accident. And glad my boyfriend also bought tickets to Seattle so we can just use it as an excuse to vacation. He's proved a lot to me in this situation though, which I'd say is a positive. I think we're coming out the other end of this situation in a better place than we were before even if I feel terribly guilty.

you're right and i should just not have mentionned what i thought,maybe. i get annoying with this lol... if the beginning of the story is true than of course , she will find ways to justify it that we will find weak, so a material proof that we cannot see might have seemed appropriate in order to keep face. Then there is a big problem behind all this, one that could end badly . But : i have re read it all .

How many people leave their webcams recording after they make a youtube video? I don't buy it at all.
Just convieniently recorded the slap did it?

Tbh, i've made up all types of excuses when boyfriends have hit me - some a lot weaker than that and people wanting to believe it, have.
It's almost 'i walked into a door, and then fell down the stairs.'

I guess the internet will never know, then. However, Emlion's avatar reminded me I need to catch up on season 5 of Dexter. Looks like I've got a few hours of television to distract me from my crazy life of denial!

Season finale on Sunday!

& sure you're being flippant about it all now, but you were very upset about it and people are just trying to help you and save you heartache later on.

yeah, remember, tick tick tick

that's the sound of your life running out.

facepalm, dexter geeks......

this is so not a facepalm moment!
we're just totally amazing, that's all it is.

we do exude awesomeness, now that you're pointing it out.....