What Gaslighting Sounds Like

For me, it was a single word: ‘Wow’

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Before I ever heard about gaslighting, my boyfriend’s favorite word was wow. “Wow,” he would say whenever I tried to talk about my feelings or tell him about something he’d done that bothered me. “Wow. WOW. Just wow.”

To me, that’s the sounds of gaslighting, one syllable. Wow.