There’s a kind of betrayal that doesn’t just break you—it slowly erodes you, piece by piece, until one day, you don’t even recognize yourself anymore. And you most definitely can’t trust yourself. That was me. I lost myself trying to hold on to something that was never real. I stayed in cycles of deception, gaslighting, and self-abandonment, convincing myself that if I could just be more—more patient, more understanding, more lovable, and live in complete denial—then maybe, just maybe, ...
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