Rising, Ch. 2

This is such an interesting study of the flip side of love and relationships. We swim in it's strength and uplifting nature mostly in fic. The ideal. The reality is that it is also crippling. That when you give your heart over to someone else, as something as simple as telling you something you did was stupid can crush your spirit and bring you to tears.

This situation is by every means extreme, but would not surprise me if people were emotionally locked into this type of relationship everywhere. You know you are being emotionally abused and shackled in what you KNOW is an abusive relationship, but as in this case, you are afraid to leave, because you don't want the death of another on your conscious.

Depressingly real.