Number five: they flirted in front of you and blamed you for noticing. This wasn’t thoughtlessness; it was strategic. It was precision. They knew what they were doing; it was calculated. The long stares, the sly smiles, the compliments that crossed the line but were just vague enough to deny, the playful comments that made your stomach twist—you were not imagining any of that. You were witnessing those things, and more than that, you were feeling them. That deep, sickening awareness that they wanted someone else to see them, to desire them, while you stood right next to them. And when you brought it up, they did not reassure you; they did not hold you; they humiliated you. “Oh, come on, you’re insecure; you’re overreacting”—the same classic gaslighting. But I must tell you: you were not jealous; you were being attacked for seeing them for the person they actually are. They wanted you to doubt yourself. Why? Because it was a two-for-one hit to your confidence, feeding their ego while starving yours.
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