when you don’t choose who to marry you can’t choose someone who mistreats you in exactly the way that feels deeply familiar and right to you and which you secretly feel you deserve https://twitter.com/brawlyparton/status/1381238792590389248…
i almost wrote the first tweet with words like trauma and attachment but then i decided it would hit better if i stayed closer to the phenomenology instead of trying to describe (my current sense of) the causality and that appears to have been a good idea. lesson for the future