not running when things got hard.
They told me that love wasn’t enough. That I was being naive and foolish. That I’d understand when I was older and wiser.
When I refused repeatedly to leave Michael’s side, when I kept visiting him every single day at the rehabilitation hospital, when I made it clear I was choosing him over their approval, they finally followed through on their threats.
They cut me off financially—completely, immediately, ruthlessly. They took away the college fund they’d been contributing to since I was born. They removed me as a beneficiary from their accounts. They closed every door they had the power to close.
And then they told me, in no uncertain terms, not to contact them again until I “came to my senses.”
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