if you are sadistic enough you can raise a person to be simultaneously insane and desperate for a sense of home and love and family and their entire life will be torture
Many trauma survivors embrace the fact that no one is coming to "save" us, that it's on us to save ourselves-- but what we often forget is this that means it's also on us to be our own most consistent source of compassion & validation, not just accountability.
My lovely little dove, please don't leave. Whatever you want you can have here, too, with me, we can share it. You're always leaving. Please stop leaving, it kills me every time.