Trusting your gut is difficult when the feedback loop in your relationship consistently tells you that your sensors are broken. You react to something hurtful, and suddenly the conversation shifts to your “sensitivity” rather than the event itself. Over time, these relationship patterns erode your self-trust. You stop looking at the reality of the situation and start scanning yourself for defects. It is a sleek, quiet form of dismantling that leaves you questioning your own sanity. You aren’t crazy; you are just being gaslit by a system of behaviors designed to invalidate you.
