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  • Dear diary... by juvinem
    juvinem
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    Have you ever dated a guy who cheated on you? Have you ever felt emotionally neglected by your parents? Rebecca is a typical 17-year old girl, with trust issues, who can only rely on her diary.
  • Life In A Narcissist Family Part- 2 Growing Wings  by Renu-55
    Renu-55
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    In Part 1, Tina fights to secure her daughter's right to grow up with both her parents. Though her dream of building a corporate career remains unfulfilled, she earns the right to work and eventually creates a meaningful identity as a teacher in one of the city's reputed schools. Through teaching, Tina develops a deeper understanding of children, their emotions, and the unseen struggles that shape them. Along the way, she discovers a purpose that gives a new direction and meaning to her own life. Determined to give her daughters the strength, confidence, and independence she herself had once fought for, Tina fills their home with curiosity, learning, and possibilities. She pours her love and energy into their upbringing, ensuring that they grow up with the opportunities and emotional security she had longed for. Her efforts bear fruit as her daughters blossom into confident, accomplished young women. Having found success in her first innings, Tina steps into the second chapter of her life. She begins to rediscover the woman she had lost while fulfilling her responsibilities. She makes her mental and physical well-being a priority and starts rebuilding herself from within. She returns to the gym, reconnects with music - her first love - begins writing stories and poetry, and travels abroad to spend precious time with her daughters. As she fills the emptiness within with love, family, creativity, and meaningful pursuits, Tina slowly understands that happiness does not depend on having a perfect partner or a perfect life. She learns that seeking emotional nourishment from a dry well only leads to repeated disappointment. Through acceptance, self-discovery, and resilience, Tina discovers that even an imperfect life can be lived with grace, purpose, and joy. This is a story of motherhood, transformation, healing, and the quiet strength of a woman who, after years of carrying others, finally learns to spread her own wings.
  • IN THE SHADOW OF THE FATHER BY MARJORIE LUGARI PSY by M_LUGARI
    M_LUGARI
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    He never left. He was never there. Growing up with a father who was physically present but emotionally absent is learning to live in a shadow. In this first auto fictional volume, I tell the story of what his silence passed down to me - and how I stopped waiting for him in order to exist.
  • 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡: 𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 by kyrawrtz
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    𝐀 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓱× 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓪 (≧◡≦)(❥‿❥) Book Name Own by me do not copy🙏
  • Tyla by samyazurzolo
    samyazurzolo
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    Book 14: Since she was small, the girl learned to "read the room" before she could even read books. She became an expert at monitoring her mother's moods to avoid being the target of her mother's frustration. While other kids were being cared for, she was the one making her own cereal and tucking herself into bed, effectively becoming the "parent" in the house while she was still a child.This book talks about a girl with Mommy Issues.
  • Comfort Looks Like Love by A_Gracee
    A_Gracee
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    Weeks before her wedding, Paris Sinclair begins receiving anonymous notes left on her windshield after work-each one exposing painful truths about her relationship. As the messages force her to question the difference between comfort and real emotional love, Paris must decide if marrying her high school sweetheart is truly what she wants... or simply what feels familiar.
  • TO LOVE  by _rouge_flame_
    _rouge_flame_
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    I ran till my foot bleed , till my legs burned , still never seems to escape it . M x M
  • The Absence Was Ordinary by being_flame
    being_flame
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    The Absence Was Ordinary is a quiet, inward story about a person who learned to survive by becoming smaller. Raised in a home where emotional neglect was subtle and constant, the narrator grows into adulthood appearing composed, mature, and functional-while slowly losing any clear sense of self. This is not a story of dramatic trauma or visible collapse. It is about erosion. About how anxiety settles without announcement, how strength becomes habit, how identity turns into routine. As the mask dissolves, what remains is not pain or relief, but a hollow awareness-detached, honest, and alone. The book explores emotional absence, dissociation, and slow ego death. It offers no easy resolution, only observation. This is a story for readers who recognize silence, who understand that some wounds do not scream-they simply endure.
  • Before The Answer Came by CikaWrites
    CikaWrites
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    A woman spends months reshaping herself-physically and emotionally-believing love can be repaired if she becomes "better." But when she finally stands as the version everyone admires, the person she waits for still cannot choose. This is not a story about betrayal. It is a story about silence, waiting, and the moment a woman realizes that an unanswered question can change her life forever.
  • HAUNTED HOUSE by -dayaftertomorrow
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    see the soil i grew upon, in a couple years i'll be alright cover by @bayports <3 POETRY && NONSENSE THOUGHTS OF A BOY ON FIRE LOWERCASE INTENDED -DAYAFTERTOMORROW, 2023©
  • The Ledger  by Latymatty
    Latymatty
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    A father and child meet across the cold glass of obligation. Every need is met. Every duty is paid. The books always balance - and that is precisely the problem. A free-verse poem about a relationship reduced to pure transaction.
  • Short Stories  by XDaniSaurusRexX
    XDaniSaurusRexX
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    Most of these are probably just from writing prompts I did for school I'm posting these partially because I have an impending fear of being forgotten so to remedy that I'm just publishing a series of equally mediocre short stories for the chance that someone chump will see it someday after I've passed from this life. Or before that point idk
  • acknowledging me by grapeejellyfishe
    grapeejellyfishe
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    「 to acknowledge means to accept. 」 ─── Han Aesong, now known as Samira Ruen shin, was an ordinary senior student barely surviving the life she had. Though the life she experienced was hard, it was full of memories with the people she loves. it wasn't long until she was murdered, ending her life as Han Aesong. Now awakened as 14 y/o Samira, the twin sister of Elizabeth Ruen Shin- the protagonist of a webnovel she once read,〔 Elizabeth's Sanctuary 〕who tragically died at the hands of their stepmother, she tried to accept her new life but she couldn't do so. "I don't want this life anymore.." Sobbed the young woman, wiping the tears that she tried to suppress.
  • Letters I Never Sent: Growing Up With Emotionally Unavailable Parents  by laurashideout
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    A story of hope to find yourself amid the chaos
  • I Never Thought That I'd Love the Color Yellow So Much (But Then I Met You) by VegetarianCarnivore
    VegetarianCarnivore
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    Shinsou isn't into the same things as the other boys. He isn't into sports, he doesn't like the type of music they listen to, and he doesn't like girls. There's a new idol that all the boys are obsessing over, so naturally, Shinsou doesn't participate in everyone thirsting over, so naturally he doesn't do the same. That is, until he finds out she is actually a he. Secretly a boy! female idol Denki Kaminari x emo, sleep deprived Hitoshi Shinsou. (Cross posted on ao3)
  • A Place Just Outside the Light by InkDrenchedSoul
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    Khawala Tahir had always been surrounded by people, by noise, by the weight of expectations-yet somehow, she remained on the outside, as if life had locked her behind a door no one noticed. The love she longed for was never denied outright-just quietly, almost politely, given to others.She was blamed for wounds she didn't cause, punished simply for breathing too softly, for existing too gently.So she learned to live on silence,On the faint echoes of affection left behind for her in the corners. She was never the one their arms reached for, never the name they spoke with pride. But she never wept aloud. She loved without demand, gave without measure, and placed her trembling heart in the hands of the One who never let it fall-her Lord. Her devotion was quiet, unwavering. Her soul so selfless it startled even her own reflection.Yet beneath the layers of resilience, there remained a tender ache- To be seen. To be chosen.To be loved not for her strength, nor for what she could survive-but for the soft, sacred soul she truly was. All she ever wished for was peace- A life that didn't feel like a sentence for being different.
  • I Didn't Learn Love Until You by rubyissocool123
    rubyissocool123
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    A poem which shows how someone's family didn't love them as much as they should have, but she found someone who made her feel love in a way she had never felt before.
  • I keep myself by DhipikaSeopursat
    DhipikaSeopursat
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    I Keep Myself is a journey back to the self. Told through poetic reflection and grounded truth, this book explores how women learn endurance instead of safety, accommodation instead of intimacy, and availability instead of love. It examines the cost of staying too long, the language we use to excuse harm, and the courage it takes to choose oneself when leaving feels cruel. This book does not offer easy answers. It offers clarity. I Keep Myself is for those unlearning self-abandonment, reclaiming their boundaries, and discovering that love does not require suffering to be real. It is a reminder that keeping yourself is not selfish - it is survival, and it is sacred.
  • You Seemed Fine to Me by Stella18101995
    Stella18101995
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    Eli Arden's emotional priority score is too low to matter. In a city where an AI decides who deserves help, he's been labeled stable-too quiet to save, too functional to worry about. When Noah Vale is assigned as his temporary companion, Eli learns what warmth feels like. But the system interprets improvement as no longer needing support. And by the time Eli realizes he's drowning, his requests for help are already being ignored. Because he seemed fine. Because the system worked exactly as intended. A story about being dismissed so quietly you forget you ever mattered. 🩸 Angst | 💔 Hurt No Comfort | 🤖 Dystopian ⚠️ CW: Emotional neglect, passive SI, systemic abandonment