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…
My counselor once told me that people who’ve experienced chaotic parental relationships often pursue chaotic romantic relationships because in some sense the abuse feels like home and a part of my soul wept at that knowledge