CareLess

“The communication ban still hasn’t been lifted and…I’m pretending to be indifferent. Because I’ve already wasted too many years begging the emotional terrorist in my ‘family’, to stop using their kids to negotiate my return into their Goof Troop. And now that I realize their carelessness is intentional…I have to care less. All the other holidays they did this, I freely offered my energy to be harvested. But I’m starting to accept that they take my ability to speak to my niece away around this time…because they want me to feel like I don’t have any ‘family’, during a season that’s meant to be spent with one. So knowing the emotions they’re trying to invoke…is forcing me to give the opposite.”