Hi, I was wondering: my boyfriend has relatively poor memory regarding everything except for numbers and dates. He’ll often remember things as having happened in a different order chronologically and will sometimes fill in memory gaps quite creatively. He’s a great story teller and his stories wouldn’t be nearly as interesting without the details his mind makes up to fill the gaps. He’ll almost always easily agree to my version of events the few times when I do correct him and there seems to be no agenda, so I am certain there is no intent to gaslight. But seeing as I’m planning to be with him for the rest of our lives, what can I do to protect myself from it having a confusing effect on me long term?
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Hi, I was wondering: my boyfriend has relatively poor memory regarding everything except for numbers and dates. He’ll often remember things as having happened in a different order chronologically and will sometimes fill in memory gaps quite creatively. He’s a great story teller and his stories wouldn’t be nearly as interesting without the details his mind makes up to fill the gaps. He’ll almost always easily agree to my version of events the few times when I do correct him and there seems to be no agenda, so I am certain there is no intent to gaslight. But seeing as I’m planning to be with him for the rest of our lives, what can I do to protect myself from it having a confusing effect on me long term?
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