"I'm glad it didn't affect you that much."
You don't know how it broke me down.
You had no idea what it did to me, how it shattered me in ways I never thought possible. I tried to stay strong, I tried to pretend like it wasn't hurting me, but it was. It was eating me up from the inside, and every day felt like a battle just to hold myself together. You never saw how I had to pick up the broken pieces of myself, trying to put them back together even though I knew they'd never fit the same way again. While it seemed like nothing to you, it was everything to me. It felt like my world was crumbling, and I didn't know how to stop it.
I kept it all hidden because I didn't want to seem weak. I didn't want you to see how much I was falling apart. But the truth is, it affected me more than you could ever imagine.
