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The Peanut Butter Spoon Incident
She called. I picked up. She started crying, telling me her brother was pressuring her to tell him something she didn’t want to talk about. She continued, “he won’t stop, and I don’t like it, not one bit. The worse part is, I feel weak when he keeps pressuring me like this.”
I froze.
There is always a choice between denial and possibility, resignation and acceptance.
It’s never been about “fight” for me when things get tough and scary. It’s been about abort and abandon (a.k.a. flight). I don’t escape through drugs or alcohol, but through staying in my bedroom, ignoring my family, friends and basic life responsibilities. It’s like drug and alcohol overuse in that the end-result is the same if sustained over the long term: I not only abort and abandon myself but also everyone I care about.