
Edit: I’ve wanted to end it for a while bc he’s HELLA childish and manipulative, but always feel bad because he’s created a codependency between us that I don’t know how to escape. I also feel like it’s over the moment I feel like I have to record our fights so I can show my friends or listen back to it just to prove to myself that my feelings about wanting to end things are invalid
Break up with him over the phone. That’s what my gf did with her ex of 6 years because she just couldn’t bring herself to do it in person and he was hella childish and not a good match long term. She should’ve left earlier tbh. You’ll be glad when you leave him trust me. Yeah you’ll be sad for a while but do you really want this to be your life forever?
“I’d have no issue leaving if he was hurting me” sounds like he already is. Maybe not physically, but why are you putting up with manipulation and projection + CONSENT issues while trying to convince us you’d leave “if he was hurting me”. It sounds like he is in plenty of other ways.