My partner thinks I am a bad person
I've been with my partner for 4 years, the first two years were a disaster. I had a mental health crisis and suffered with severe BPD episodes, I was genuinely a bad person then or maybe just a very mentally unwell 15 year old.
Despite this, they got back with me after a couple breakups.
We have ups and downs as every couple but it always repeats the same patterns, we are all good for 1-2 weeks then we have an arguement and then the rest of that week is bad with arguements and resentment etc.
I understand why they resent me, considering my behaviour at the beginning of the relationship but equally I don't think me being that mentally unwell defines how I am now at 20 years old. I'm back in therapy and I'm trying to do better everyday.
But when we get into arguements they tell me the same things everytime, that I am a bad person, that I never listen to them, I don't care, I will always be like this, I'm useless, I'm stupid and delusional etc.
It's really hard because every arguement seems to be about what I am doing wrong, even if they have done wrong to start.
For example, on Sunday I asked them to take the rubbish out to the bin meanwhile I put my headphones on to do some washing up. I didn't hear them call up the stairs multiple times because of that, so they came back upstairs pissed off and asked what bin goes out, I said "the black one". Off they went back downstairs and took the bin out to the curb, I didn't realise I had told them to take it out out, i thought they were asking because Monday is the day you take the bins out so I figured they were asking to prepare for that. They came back in and I realise my mistake, I had told them to take out the bin. I said "oh, it's Monday to take the bins out, you didn't have to take it out today" they got audibly annoyed and very angry, said I had embarrassed them infront of the whole street and called me useless etc. I told them they should not speak to me like that, I didn't realise and it was a mistake. They got angrier and angrier and the whole day was a disaster, it was hot and they were in pain.
This is most of the arguements, I will do something wrong, they get angry at me but at the end I end up apologising because I 'started it', maybe if I just listened etc.
It annoys me that they never see how they contribute to the problem and it always lands on me, it does make me pretty resentful because I feel like I'm being constantly blamed and then get a mad partner too.
I can be rude and angry, I'm autistic, my tone is often 'off' or inappropriate for the situation, they've known I was autistic our whole relationship. I do try and control my tone when I recognise it but often it seems like I am being rude or sound rude/angry when I definitely am not. It's nothing personal to them, but it really upsets them and honestly I don't know how to fix that. They like to remind me ill always be like this and that I'm just a bad person, and I'm starting to believe them.
I'm not entirely sure what to do anymore, there's deeper things than this but this has been my last 2 days.
I'm sure I'll get alot of sign tapping comments to say about breakups, but it's easier said than just done. They feel like more than a partner to me, like family.
What would you do in my situation?
Is it worth me continuing to work on myself and maybe seek more therapy?
Posted Jun 23, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC