Removing them from your world isn’t a one-time decision.
Other relatives will judge you over your decision.
They know you both.
Denys Nevozhai
They love you both.
So they will encourage you both to hug it out and start fresh.
They think theyre helping by telling you to mend fences but theyre only making you feel worse.
Theyre undermining your decision.
Theyre disrespecting your feelings.
Removing them from your world isnt a one-time decision.
Whenever you have dinner with a happy family or watch one on television, you get a little jealous.
Whenever you tell stories about your childhood, you leave out certain details you arent ready to relive.
When you say goodbye to a toxic family member, you get guilt tripped all the time.
They make you wonder whether youre a bad person.
They make you wonder whether you made the right choice.
You hate them for what they put you through, but you appreciate everything theyve given you.
As angry as you are at them, you still love them.
You wish you could stop caring about them, but you never can.
When you say goodbye to a toxic family member, the healing process is extremely hard.
You cant remove them from your world as completely as you want.
Youre going to have a hard time escaping your thoughts of them.
Youre going to have a hard time getting over what theyve done to you.
But youre not the only one feeling this way.
Youre not the only one going through this hell.
