" I would never allow someone to came into their lives that did not earn that honor.".....Love it.
They love to tear us down....and it is tough, but we all survive. One of the best conversations I had with the X produced a great nugget for me to share. We were on an anniversary trip to the beach....and at the end of the trip she totally tore into me for like 3 hours (before the ride home none the less...oh joy LOL). The premise of the conversation was how/what/when/where/why and everything in between that she hated about me. It stung big time. Down the road we discussed this conversation and this is what I got "IT wasn't that I hated you, it was that I hated myself. That what I was doing, you would never do to me....and that I would never be as good a spouse as you".
Now that didn't lessen the sting of what was said.....but knowing that the spewed hatred was actually hatred of herself was very liberating.