Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”

    • bizarroland
      4•10 days ago

      No, you’re not breaking it to me. This is something I already know quite well.

      I didn’t know it at the time, though.

      I was blessed with that hopeful naivety of a child who tells themselves “if they just love hard enough, eventually it will all come together” that abusive people truly relish.