-------------------What you need

If I didn't need to be loved

then maybe I would want it.

If I didn't need to know the truth

then maybe I would look for it.

If I didn't need criticism

then maybe I would take it.

But I do

so I don't.

Because you deserve it.

Whatever makes people stay in an abusive relationship?

Disrespect, Rudeness, Emotional Torture- Literal Punches.

THe Hope tHat tHe situation will cHange. THat's wHat makes one stay. THe Hope.

The attachment to a nicer scenario.
The belief that things will turn out as we imagine.
Peaceful and Loving scenarios.

It is what, in the same way, keeps an abused woman in an abusive relationship, there, helpless and weak in the belief that her strength to push through will change her abuser's behaviour.

It is a give and take relationship.

A give and take of abuse.

So both feel the comfort of bonding as the abuse continues and a single moment of affection or kindness deletes the previous wounds.

But it shouldn't.

It doesn't heal the wounds.

And who wants open wounds?

<< We accept the love we think we deserve>>

...appears on my Facebook Feed

--------------------nothing------------------

There is so much access to

everything;

that nothing really feels like 

something.

Too much and too many of

anything

leaves us all here with

nothing.