It's because of articles like these that I was able to recognize a woman I had been dating tried to gaslight me last year. Without knowledge of this concept I would have been pissed off without the language to describe what she was trying to pull on me.

I didn't have a word for it till after I got out of an abusive relationship. Everything I did was an over reaction, nothing he ever did was really wrong, he was constantly saying I'd said things or agreed to things I never did and acting like I was crazy when I couldn't remember saying them. He would agree to things I wanted to do and then start an argument or bring up how he was worried about money right before the event, so we'd end up canceling(because who wants to go on a date mad/broke), but then he'd blame me because we never went out. Gaslighting. All of it.

I've had many gaslighting experiences from exes , my abusive father and my mom who is in denial at times about my abusive past. Sometimes it takes everything I have in me not to make an alarm sound and say "Gaslight Alert!!!!!!!"

Shi Jarrell
Sometimes people don't realize they're being abused because they're being manipulated into not believing their own feelings.

Just about destroyed me. Didn't even know it was a thing until out the end of 16 year marriage. Not a finger was lifted but just about destroyed me from the inside out...

I wish I could read your articles. Within 5 seconds I get forwarded to a spam page.

Very much need too staple this to the inside of my eyelids so I don't forget.

I didn't know what gaslighting was until I found articles like these. A while ago, I was in a relationship with a particularly toxic person and I now have a word to describe what he did. If I tried to confront him about anything, he'd tell me it didn't happen or he'd pretend he was the victim. He also had me convinced that no-one would want to date a blind person so lucky he decided to settle. I'm not with that twit anymore and I'm glad there's a word for what he did and I'm not overreacting.