Uhh. Especially after much final reflection (for now).. I have to say—as a longtime advocate for and as someone who benefits from and has benefitted from the victimhood glamorization arc & subsequent anti-hero redemption.. …don’t do what I did, & don’t get trapped in the cycles of reciprocation, let alone the cycles of reciprocation & escalation—to whom it may concern.
Co-dependencies are often the result of recipients of abuse learning to manipulate their abusers into meeting their needs. Passed-down trauma / emotional neglect / design of the scapegoat—they’re all irrevocably entwined
