If you don’t do what they want you to you, they threaten you. They will take things away. They will do anything to manipulate you into doing what they want you to do. and if you don’t play by there rules you’ll pay for it.
Our expectations today are at an all time high, and our patience at an all time low.
“Who cares if you don’t have your first kiss until you’re 21? Stop putting so much pressure on yourself in life and in school. Take it easy, kiddo.”
We are hyper-attuned – to everything. Changes in tone? Check. Micro-shifts in facial expressions? Noted. Gestures that contradict spoken words? Documented. We are emotional private investigators that are highly attuned to changes in our environment. We had to be in order to survive our childhood. Due to this, we are highly sensitive and intuitive to the needs of others, but we are also constantly on the lookout for what’s about to come.
They don’t mention that you must remember who you are. The you before someone stole from you and tried to tell you who or what you were.
2018 you have been awful to me, but thanks to my best friends (books) 2018 was a bit more tolerable.
When I was play arguing with my 7 year old and she said she wished she was dead like my miscarried baby. Fucking savage and a brat.
She was smiling. She was on trial for manslaughter and she couldn’t stop smiling. It wasn’t a giggly high type of smiling. It was a sick dead eye smile.
When a guy is not ashamed to talk about his feelings and he doesn’t play cool “so that she doesn’t think I’m desperate or something”.
Self-awareness can be defined as “the ability to take an honest look at your life without attachment to it being right or wrong.” It’s knowing who you are, what you feel, and what you desire.
We all know that malignant narcissists like to provoke, taunt and destroy people – all with clean hands. But what are some of the sneakiest ways they manipulate and terrorize their victims? I asked over a hundred survivors what the most insidious way a narcissist has abused them and the answers were shocking.
Let go of those false hopes. Let go of those high hopes. Let things work themselves out.
It’s important to talk about why suicide attempts and ideation occur. It’s important to destigmatize the suffering of those who may be shouldering their pain in silence. It’s important to be mindful of how we treat those who choose to share their struggles and to be mindful that not everyone may be as open in coming forward or reaching out for help.
Your family members are the people who you feel the most comfortable around, who you feel the most yourself around, who you want to spend every single holiday surrounded by.
