DrainingDay

“I love how Christmas brings out the worst in my ‘family’. So it’s not surprising that I got into it with my go-to goofy today. And right before I said words that would’ve caused irreversible emotional damage…I left the chat to lay up with my peace of mind. Because I know she was intentionally crafting the conversation, in a way that would invoke the worst out of me. I’ve had enough practice with these draining days to know…that they need me to crash out…to stop my headlights from exposing the trauma they traffick. Which is why they’ve exhausted so many resources…studying how to turn mine off. Time gave them the opportunity to learn themselves instead. But they choose to waste all of it…failing at sacrificing my psyche.”