So that girl would say directly to my then “boyfriend” that they were so happy to torture me. And I used the exact word they used, torture. Dude, probably annoyed but reacted nothing. After all, they have some mutual friends.
No, I am not projecting a protective figure that I didn’t have in the past onto my present. I don’t even need actual protection regularly. Mostly because I actively work on the environment so that I don’t have to.
But I thought then, if I had been in his position, I would have told her to get lost and then thrown away any friends who would want to have a relationship with that kind of person. So you can see I didn’t want to date another weasel. It had to be a nonconformist.