Tag: emotional abuse
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Healing is Mine
I don’t want to make my healing about you, so I do my best to forget. But five years is a long time and I find your sour words appearing while Iwash dishes. Blue suds on my hands, the words, “You needed that.” Foaming fromyour mouth. You flounder off of me, a place you weren’t…
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Witherbloom
I spent a decade under someone else’s thumb. The finger changed hands over the years, but there I remained, trying to crawl out of the deep fingerprint lines that had become my permanent residence. I spent years being told that I was not enough, that how I dressed was a tease to other men, that…
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