Dear riley:
If I understand correctly, you didn’t want to have a relationship with him to begin with, but you did anyway, conflicted. On one hand you wanted the closeness, on the other hand you didn’t. The part of you that did not want him in your life kicked him in his sleep, talked down to him and broke up with him multiple times.
I think that you are conflicted about who you are, doubting your own … goodness, so you can’t see him for who he is and you can’t see the relationship for what it is.
You wrote: “if it weren’t for him I wouldn’t have realized how self-destructive I was being to my body, mind, and spirit”- how have you been, in your life so far, self destructive?
anita