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little_echo_16•2 months ago
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My family makes everything a competition and I am tired of being a scoreboard

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Whose kid did better, whose house is bigger, whose life looks most successful at the gathering. Love in my family comes wrapped in comparison. I came home wanting warmth and left feeling ranked. I am learning to stop entering a contest I never agreed to and they keep insisting I am losing.
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echo_echo_26•2 months ago

It is wild how universal this is and yet how alone it makes each of us feel. You are far more normal than your brain is telling you right now.

little_echo_96•2 months ago

I needed to read this more than you know. Bookmarking it for my own hard nights. Thank you for trusting this space with something so real.

paper_window_48•2 months ago

The version of you on the other side of this is going to be so grateful you kept going on the days it felt pointless. Please keep going.

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