She’s been the girl who was lied to.
She’s been the girl who was manipulated, cheated on, and accused of doing things the other person was doing the entire time.
She was gaslight so hard she questioned what colour the ocean was.
She’s been the girl who gave chances on top of chances because she knows change doesn’t happen overnight.
She’s begged for counselling, pleaded for effort, and shown more patience than you couldn’t even begin to imagine.
She even changed the way she communicated to adapt to what someone else needed.
She buried her complaints and kept her feelings to herself so she could keep the peace.
She’s twisted her boundaries so much to try and make things work with other people she shouldn’t have given the time of day in the first place.
She used to do all those things so she could have peace of mind, but when she finally walked away, she knew she had done everything in her power to try to make things work.
And what she knows now is that every single time she did that …. all she was doing was showing people how they could treat her and still stick around.
And looking back, she can say with total confidence that not once was it worth it.
So she will never do it again.
~ Cody Bret

