At some point, I also began to doubt whether I was creating problems for myself out of thin air, so I decided to look at the situation from a different perspective. I took the relationship red flag quiz at
https://glaminati.com/red-flag-quiz/ and, frankly, the results were sobering. Before that, I'd spent years justifying my partner's behavior and blaming it on stress or personality. This quiz helped me structure what I was already feeling but didn't want to acknowledge, and ultimately gave me the inner permission to leave the toxic relationship. Now I realize that without this step, I would have remained in denial for a long time.