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ORIGINAL: lally2

a little bell tinkled as i read youre OP and the subsequent answers.  im going to suggest a thought that came through, you can discard it immediately if its crap, i dont know you and i dont know youre situation, but this is what came into my head anyway.

when i was in a relationship where the level of control became too much, i said nothing, there were times when i even provoked him, i wanted him to push me so far over the edge that the question of walking was no longer anathama to me. i remember feeling incredibly empty and angry and i turned that against him, believing it was all just pointless and over.   it all went to hell, the relationship ended because it had to and i walked away from Ds for a number of years.  so yes, it did come back, it never went, it just wasnt working with him.  but maybe if id talked to him instead of using everything we did as a reason to leave we might have worked it out.

people seem to be afraid of transitional change, that somehow it means that its all come to an end, when in fact all that it is, is that you have moved on from what youre doing and you need to review and recharge and maybe alter the emphasis somewhere.  relationships rarely stay the same, if they do they become stagnant and die just as easily as if they change too much to continue.  the easy route is to say its over and leave.  the real test is to ride the transition and come out the other end still in tact.  but it takes communication.

its far better to talk and then go from there.