My Mother Texted That I Was Locked Out, but By Morning I Had Made a Few Calls

where your worth is measured entirely by what you produce, you learn a specific and damaging lesson: being useful is the only reliable way to be loved. You become the problem-solver, the fixer, the one who steps in. You tell yourself that if you were to stop, if you were to take your hands away from the beams you are holding up, the whole structure continue reading …