SJ Longthorne

An interactive fiction where your choices don’t matter because, no matter what you do, you’ll always be perceived as the one in the wrong by someone who is unwilling to be introspective, who can’t deal with being told, very simply and calmly. that they have hurt you.

I am learning to tell people when I am hurting, and when they have hurt me. I will do it calmly and fairly. The friends who respect that are the friends I will embrace. For the rest, I will grieve.

I have the utmost respect for someone who can listen when I tell them ‘this has hurt me’ and talk through it with me rather than throw up battlements and only tell me about their pain rather than discuss both of ours.

But if our relationship is only about how you feel, and you are unwilling to discuss anything else — if me saying that I’m hurting is considered an unkindness — then I’m sorry. I will really miss you. But I deserve a better friend.