I’m convinced when you rekindle a relationship with someone (friend, family, ex, etc), something will always resurface to show you why you should have left it burned and dried up.
Nobody really cares about your mental health until it starts showing up as anger. When you’re quietly overwhelmed, carrying the weight of everything by yourself, people tell you to “stay strong” and keep pushing like nothing is wrong. But the moment all that bottled-up pain comes to the surface and you stop handling it the way everyone expects, suddenly you’re the problem.