“When expectations bury you
Where love slowly becomes conditional
Demands grow incessant, masked as care
Parents feed you with one hand
While strangling you with another.”

Not every scar is visible.
Not every wound is physical.
Sometimes, it’s the people who say “I love you” that leave the deepest cuts.
🖤 #toxicparents #sadstory #poetrytok #traumawriting #emotionalstory