Dear ____,
Your wife lied. It wasn't the medication that made you act that way; the medication just unlocked it. You hit your thirteen-year-old son, and you were starting to hit your ten-year-old son too, while also managing to scar your daughter for life and abandon her with your child.
You have yet to apologize for any of it.
You laugh off my pain. You shout and scream at the tiniest 'error', demand we do things in a specific, random way, and when you so much as trip it's our fault. And when I offered you a chance for an honest truce, where we both listen and talk to each other, you told me I was the entire problem. I have dark, suicidal moods where I want to kill myself for no reason, then simply snap out of it fifteen minutes later. I don't know whether it's from Asperger's or just you.
You are part of my soul, ____. You're the part that bleeds and screams deep inside my mind, and when anything goes wrong, it's unleashed, whether or not I want it to be. And no matter how much I try to lock that room away, there's still a bleeding, screaming, sobbing little girl, and you slitting her skin open with a knife, then telling her that she'd be pretty if she wasn't so fat. F*ck you.
___,
I can forgive living in terror of your 'moods'; that was a combination of bad book choices (whoever said 'the Lottery' was appropriate for any age group was high) and my Asperger's Syndrome. Fair enough. Sh*t happens, as they say. But how could you be so cruel as to abandon me with your two-year-old daughter? You had all her happy moments for those years, ____, while I had all the work. It feels like I've lost a daughter even though I never gave birth.
When I was suffering from C-PTSD, you abandoned me to that, too. I saw a list once of five things you should never say to a trauma victim. You somehow managed to say every single one to me at some point. Want to know why I never sought help? You. You laughed me off and that left me, alone, to deal with a condition that very nearly took my life. I still suffer from mood swings, and I'm not going to try to ask for help, because when I finally did get the courage, years later, you decided it was a personal attack on you for no f*cking reason.
I wanted you to save me. I understand now that you couldn't. But that doesn't mean pretending the past didn't happen was a good idea. Right now we're best friends, but I still remember the pain. I just wish you'd remember it too so we could move on.
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Now if only I could think of a witty signature...