💜 Malcolm Bright (& Bucky Barnes)

you will not always be strong but you can always be brave

M:I did this Ainsley- I screwed up...

A: I think I did too...

M: Do you have any idea what you put me through?!

A: We said no more secrets...

A: But what I did to you?!

M: You were stressed, lied to, hurt, we both were...

M: Because of what I have done to protect you!

narcissists A. are incredible liars, and B. have a habit of dehumanizing the people closest to them (i.e. children, partners, etc). and one of the ways this presents itself is by the person in question referring to others not by name, but as “my [blank].” it’s literally them taking possession over these people and viewing them not as their own separate person, but as an extension of themselves and nothing more.

“Didn’t know birds got this attached to their humans.”