i've never been good with relationships
starting them, maintaining, ending
why would i?
i am my parents daughter after all

mom and her incapacity to forgive
dad and his crazy idealization of people
me and the wish for people to be the way i imagine they are, followed by the urge to walk away the second they're not
something broken inside

i still miss them when i don't reach out
i'm still hurt when i leave
i wish they would fight for me, still

but they never do
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