First, let me say.. please don’t respond saying you’d leave when you know you really wouldn’t. I need HONEST opinions.

So, to the story.. I live with my ex & our kids due to being in nursing school. He pays for daycare. We aren’t together in a relationship but we still have sex, do things together, etc. not seeing other people. Anyway, yesterday we were taking the kids to play games somewhere. I hadn’t showered in since Friday (yes, I know.. disgusting) but I decided I’d just braid my hair & go about my day. Wasn’t greasy or anything FYI. So I go to grab the strands & he says.. I know you’re not about to braid your hair. I said yes.. why? He just shook his head. I said you act like I don’t know how to do it. He said no, you act like it looks good. I just finished braiding it.. pulled my hair back & walked out with the kids. I literally wanted to crawl under the bed & cry. I can understand if he doesn’t like it but to make me feel like I was ugly was another thing. He’s made comments before while we were arguing how I think I’m hot shit. If anyone knows me, they know I don’t think I’m a supermodel.. but I’m working on self love. I wanted to reply & say well it’s a good thing it’s not for you, it’s for me.. but I’ve tried that before & his reply is somewhere along the lines of yeah why would you want to do anything that I like? Or makes me attracted to you.. at one point, I didn’t want to even go, but I knew if I didn’t, he wouldn’t have taken our daughter bc he’d have to tote around 2 kids. Also, let me add that I don’t do my hair like this often. I literally did it last week & that was the first time in YEARS. Usually it doesn’t turn out good anyway. I ended up taking it out bc I felt like shit about it & even though it actually turned out good, I kept finding something wrong with it.