Lol! You did the hard work and nailed it on the head. You called him an azzhole, he was gratified that you were still the person he could blame and dislike. You made it awful easy.
This is not an easy situation and I do not know if I would have anymore grace than you. It is super easy for us to detach and see it clearly, we are not in the sitch ( with the super deluxe air mattress...you made me spit out my coffee...I needed that and needed to see your sense of humour
But take our view from afar and see what you can do with it. It is because we are not you that we can offer this. Stop giving him what he wants all the time, which is your reaction. This will escalate, especially when you do not react to the increasingly hostile remarks. Hopefully he will leave, but I think this is going to get worse before it gets better. Hope I am wrong and he just gives up remarks when you no longer bite.
Emotional abuse hurts just as much and I know that I did serious damage to my H. No name calling etc., just made him feel second best and I saw a pic of him on someone else's Facebook and his face was full of joy and he was laughing.
I have not seen that man, as he was in that picture, in a long time and it kills me to think that I caused that. So I offer to you advice from the other side, because I know how to use words to hurt and that is why you cannot engage. That is where the satisfaction for someone like him and like me comes in. Because then we know you hurt as much as we do.
