You feel like you might trust them.

There are times when you dont evenknowhow youre feeling.

You cant tell whether you want to bawl, want to scream, or want to cuddle.

When You’re In A Dark Place, You Accidentally Hurt The People You Love The Most

Amber Kipp

The only thing youre sure about is that you want whatever this feeling is to go away.

You want to feel okay again.

When youre in a dark place, you might mistreat the people who mean the most to you.

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It has nothing to do with whether or not you love them.

It has to do withvicinity.

You nevermeanto snap at them or slam doors around them, but it happens.

And you regret it seconds later.

When youre in a dark place, you have a hard time putting on your happy-go-lucky persona twenty-four seven.

You lock yourself away.

You drop off the face of the planet and make all your friends wonder where youve gone.

You stop being there for them.

You stop treating them the way they deserve.

When youre in a dark place, you accidentally hurt the people you love the most.

You feel like you might trust them.

Even though theyre the last people you would ever want to hurt, theyre the easiest to hurt.

Theyre also the hardest to apologize to because they dont want to hear you talk negatively about yourself.

They deserve the best side of you.

They deserve only good things.

But when youre in a bad place, its hard to rise to their standards.

Its hard to give them everything you believe they deserve.