How to Deal With a Manipulative Relationship

I was always apologizing for things that like I didn't do, you know, it was like apologizing for my emotional reactions to their behavior. And neither of these relationships were physically abusive so they didn't really seem abusive to me. But then when I look back at where I was, I was like, he really like broke me down over time. It's like they break you down so that you are no longer yourself because they hate every single part of you that doesn't fit in with exactly what they want until you're just a tiny little crumb of a person.