I don& #39;t get as close to people anymore because I believe that my life and I are too complicated for them. It always ends up this way, always about circumstances beyond my control, I often feel like I have to pretend everything is okay and I just don& #39;t think that& #39;s healthy.
Ever since I realized what normalcy was, I craved it. I still blame things I went through for the downfall of my relationships because it made everything complicated, it affected me too deeply.
I could not free myself from those situations easily. Abusive situations are isolating. My abusers won.

Friends and lovers couldn& #39;t relate to me. I felt alone, but I was used to it.

Maybe they thought I was too much. If I didn& #39;t distance myself first, they did.
Moon-Saturn, I don& #39;t feel like anybody is obligated to be there for me. It was never my intention to hurt anyone as a by product of what I was going through.
I would feel guilty for valid emotions. I would feel ashamed over poor childhood conditioning.

I would think that once I was healed, maybe people would stay and what& #39;s the point of having friendships and relationships anyway if I& #39;m not?

Support isn& #39;t mine to have.
I& #39;d rather suffer alone than burden anyone. The strong friend. The strong lover. The forgotten friend. The forgotten lover. Idk.
I don& #39;t know, man, I think of this one time where I had a whole anxiety attack in front of an ex lover.

The way he walked away from me, the way he drowned out my feelings, I& #39;m haunted by that.

It was like I didn& #39;t exist.
We would collide again when I had it together, when I was thriving, when I was moving past trauma.

I would think, "Finally I& #39;m good enough to love this man. I& #39;m ready to love this man. We can be normal and happy."

A childhood dream.
And I would fall into dark places again, I would fall apart before his very eyes and I watched him fall out of love with me.

Every single time.

I would be so angry at myself. I would blame myself. I would blame my life.
I& #39;d want to disappear and I would. I would either withdraw into myself or physically go. I believed it was better to leave than to be left. I would believe people& #39;s lives were more peaceful if I wasn& #39;t around.

I was okay with that.
For years, that narrative was a story how nobody would love me if I couldn& #39;t be the person they fell in love with.

"Live up to your first impression."

"Well, my best side was your worst invention."
It& #39;s sickening and I don& #39;t know necessarily how I& #39;m coping with it now, but I want nothing more than to go to therapy, not for other people, but for me. I want answers as to why this pattern has played out over and over again through all of my relationships.
I want peace, I want reciprocation, I want understanding, and I want acceptance.

I& #39;ve worked so hard for acceptance. I& #39;ve done things I shouldn& #39;t have for acceptance.

And in the end, I didn& #39;t get acceptance.

Somehow, it was all my fault.
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