I think of them more like the wife of an abusive stepfather.
Like, they don’t like what’s happening, and they have the power to put an end to it, but it would be hard.
It would be a choice they’d have to make, and they’d have to live with the consequences, and they can’t quite convince themselves to do what they have to do in order to protect their kid.
They justify it to themselves saying that many times are good, and overlook the times where it’s horribly, horribly bad.
And I feel like the only way to solve the problem is for the kid to grow up and leave them behind, but there are many kids, and they are not in agreement as to how to do it, or if it’s even bad in the first place.
Still an untrustworthy partner who is rotten at the core.
I think of them more like the wife of an abusive stepfather.
Like, they don’t like what’s happening, and they have the power to put an end to it, but it would be hard.
It would be a choice they’d have to make, and they’d have to live with the consequences, and they can’t quite convince themselves to do what they have to do in order to protect their kid.
They justify it to themselves saying that many times are good, and overlook the times where it’s horribly, horribly bad.
And I feel like the only way to solve the problem is for the kid to grow up and leave them behind, but there are many kids, and they are not in agreement as to how to do it, or if it’s even bad in the first place.
It’s a lot simpler than that. If we stand up for ourselves we get shot.