The Things That Broke Me

When the roots are rotten, the outcome becomes part of it.

It was not her choice-but she had no right to refuse.

The love she was given was calculated and conditional.
The place where she should have been protected and safe was, instead, a danger in disguise.

She grew up believing love was always tied to pain, that violence was normal, and softness was rare.
Eventually, pain stopped feeling unfamiliar-because she had lived in it for so long.

She lived in survival for so long that she no longer knew how to get out of it.

The Things That Broke Me: The Roots Play the Part is a fiction story about family trauma, betrayal, loss, and the quiet journey of healing-told through the eyes of a girl who learned to walk away from what shaped her.
Because sometimes, it's not the world that breaks you.

Sometimes, it's where you came from.