depth wrote:
Dear E.
I love you.
I love the control you give me. I love that when you're with me, I need not think of all the things in my life which is hurting me. You keep me company when I am alone, and you keep me alive when I want to kill myself, because you tell me I don't deserve to die yet. I love that you will never leave me, that you won't abandon me, without thought or reason. You give me the tools to change myself, the courage to starve myself of what I do not need. I love that you give me something to strive for, something to work towards when nothing else is clear enough to believe in. I love the structure you give to my life.
I hate you.
I hate how unworthy you make me feel. I hate that you keep shifting the goals, that for every step I take towards what you call perfection, you push perfection two steps away. I hate that because of you I'm more often than not too unfocused to do the things which I love to do. I hate that you take over my life. I hate that you make me hurt the people I love by letting you control me. I hate how guilty you make me feel. I hate how fat you make me feel. I hate that you make me even consider giving up large parts of my life just because it'd make it easier for me to oblige you. I hate how you make other people misjudge me. I hate how you're wrecking my life. I hate how weak and pathetic you make me feel. I hate how addicted I am to you. I hate that nothing is ever good enough. I hate how you yell at me if I slip and fall. I hate that you make me hate myself.
love-hate,
me.
I have a feeling that if you leave this person, you will eventually realize that everything you listed in the "I love you" paragraph, has melted away with the reality of what this person was - a controlling, abusive child who used every means available to make you stay. Please don't oblige them. I lost so much because I did.