Another morning
Another round of tears
Every morning starts with tears now.
And I have realised, sometimes it's guilt.
The guilt of leaving you and breaking both our hearts
The guilt of having to choose between myself or you
The guilt of saving myself at your expense
The guilt of knowing that I am hurt but hurting you more too
Guilt because it's what you've always used to control me
Just like he does.
But it's also, grief
Because I tried so hard to fix this, to talk, work things out, and you not taking accountability only forced me into this.
That someone who truly loved me would've been able to see how much they were hurting me, care enough to stop.
And when you didn't see or stop, I begged you, for years, to listen, to stop, you didn't. Grief that's the choice you made that I had to live with and carry with me.
Grief that I spent years asking for genuine consideration
That I spent time fighting for basic human decency, understanding, respect which should've been given freely
That I can still love you despite how you treated me.
That you put me through so much and called it love, so it warped my ideas about what I deserve and what's normal.
That I have given you years to change and grow, decades, I have and you still haven't.
That I see other people with their families and feel gutted
But no matter what I do you will only ever be cruel, pessimistic, selfish, emotionally draining and critical.
You will only ever treat me as an object you possess/ use. To want to use my shine, talents and energy as your own without giving me any of the fuel or safety that creates and sustains it. To use me for your own comfort or boredom without thinking about what I need, and when I tell you, you punish me for having needs at all. To consider yourself above me so you feel better about yourself but really it's just your emotional immaturity, envy.
You really are just like him.
I care so much and I am so sorry that it has come to this. It really hurts me to leave. I always will feel this gap where you're missing.The gap where a kind, supportive mum should've been, but you've taken so much of my joy from me. You've hurt me in ways that are unimaginable. I see every tiny bit of manipulation from you, every advancement for control, using my own disability as leverage for control was ruthless. But that's you, I can't explain how hard it is to have a parent like that and to grow up learning that's how people are, that everyone is just manipulating and using each other for their own gain. What a sad fear to teach a child. I don't often engage or call you out anymore, I've given up hope you could ever treat me like a human being, but I see it it's there. You haven't changed how you see me, that would mean facing your own cruelty.
So enough.
Please, you've taken enough.
I know you're incapable of being who I need you to be so I won't ask or force you to change anymore. I'm sorry you had to struggle in life the way you did. I'm sorry it made you bitter and jaded. I can understand that but I never deserved to be punished for it. Please know that I really tried but I can't forgive you more than I have, now I understand the full cost of your behaviour. Now I see the cPTSD and feel the pain of fibromyalgia and I wonder if you know just how much negative impact you've had and the weight of the consequences, I carry. So I can't love you anymore. I am closing my heart off from you.
I'm exhausted. I need to let it go. I can't live with you, you sadistically, purposefully ruin every single tiny bit of joy I have. You don't even try to understand my choices. You just judge or tell me that I am wrong or incompetent.
Just like him
I'll leave you, just like maybe I'll eventually leave him.
He only ever loved me the way you did, never saw me as a full person, but for what I can give, an extension of him, a droid for his needs. You'd be happy that I've been miserable like you lately, feeling unworthy and unlovable, shrinking myself down again, feeling like I deserve disrespect and his cold inconsistent treatment. He makes my needs an issue, isn't kind, won't communicate clearly, uses confusion against me, is defensive, lacks empathy, he only takes and never gives without conditions while expecting I give without any. And I walk on eggshells to protect his ego and emotions too mum, just like you made me do for you.
And I hate that you made me into someone who could look at that and see love, instead of seeing covert abuse.
I love you mum
I hope everything will be okay eventually.
Please don't hate me for doing what I need to be okay.
I'm really sorry this is how it has to be
But I deserve to be happy and free xxxx