I was often told incidents never happened, or I was "lying" or that I was just plain over embellishing his outbursts of rage and making them more than what they are.

It is definitely an abuse tactic. He literally went around telling everyone I was a complete nut job and nothing happened the way I said it did or not at all. It got so bad that I was getting random facebook messages from some of his friends telling me I was horrible.

I was like wait, what? I get screamed at on a weekly basis and I am horrible? He was a manipulator and definitely showed signs of several mental disorders all in one. He did not understand boundaries.