You don't get to decide that, Roxy. And.....and you're not a thing to be held up and compared to other things, a thing that's inferior and should be discarded because it can't measure up.
[She still speaks with truth, but it's a truth with achingly familiar undertones this time. She knows this mindset, the cruel logic of it, how hard it is to break it from the inside by yourself.]
You're a very important person to me. You're precious, as yourself. You're not inferior to others. I want you.
Re: RAGE
You don't get to decide that, Roxy. And.....and you're not a thing to be held up and compared to other things, a thing that's inferior and should be discarded because it can't measure up.
[She still speaks with truth, but it's a truth with achingly familiar undertones this time. She knows this mindset, the cruel logic of it, how hard it is to break it from the inside by yourself.]
You're a very important person to me. You're precious, as yourself. You're not inferior to others. I want you.