Dear One,
You are right. I can turn and fight the s**t self-esteem, and the depression, and the PTSD. I can turn and fight those things and WIN.
The cost for that is that I am going to get very, very, very angry at you.
Because, whether you like it or not, you and yours were instrumental in giving me the goddamn PTSD, and the depression, and in exacerbating the s**t out of the low self-esteem until it became the driving force in my life.
You didn't do it alone, but it couldn't have happened without you.
If I turn and fight this, I don't want to hear another tirade about how I brought your actions on myself.
And if I do, I am going to TOTALLY. f*****g. LOSE IT.
I love you and understand where you are coming from and want to be kind to you and respectful of you.
So please, please, please stop asking me to fight the s**t self-esteem, and the depression, and the PTSD. Just let me live with it for the rest of my life. Let me lie down in it and accept that this is all that is left for me, please, because that's the easier road for both of us.
I would just really appreciate it if maybe you could show me tenderness, compassion, and understanding. You know, instead of berating me and ultimately discarding me for being broken. Because, though I know you did not mean for it to end like this, that's a hammer in your hands. And nary a nail in sight.
Love,
Me
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"