When Your Partner Enjoys Your Pain — Relational Sadism Explained | EP6

Everyday sadism doesn't look like a horror movie, in your relationship it looks like this. Everyday sadism doesn't always look like a horror movie, in a relationship it looks like this. Your partner picks a massive fight the night before your most important job interview, not because they have a grievance, but because injecting anxiety into your system, knowing it will compromise your performance, gives them a sense of power and superiority.

Your distress is their reward. Your friend makes a humiliating dig at your appearance in front of your crush, wrapped in a joke. I'm just messing with you, can't you take a joke, is the exit route. The sting was deliberate, the audience was chosen, stop calling it drama, call it what it is, subclinical sadism and then walk away.

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