@bombmom0f4: You can explain exactly how something hurt you and somehow the conversation still ends with you defending yourself. You bring up the behavior and suddenly the focus becomes everything you supposedly don’t do. You ask to be heard and somehow you end up feeling guilty for even speaking up. Sometimes the exhaustion isn’t from the argument itself, it’s from realizing you keep having the same conversation and your feelings still never get addressed. Eventually you stop explaining, not because you have nothing left to say, but because you finally realize who was never really listening. #EmotionalManipulation #Deflection #ToxicRelationship #HealingJourney #KnowYourWorth