Is There a Difference Between Bullying and Threat?

"I dated someone in my early 20s. I heard all of the ways in which I was a dumb ass," she says. "If I understand or if I pull back and explore when those moments happened, what I understand now is bullying that behavior being told you're a dumb ass." She adds: "On some deep level, there was something going on inside this person that my behavior was reflecting on them"