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You told yourself he never hit you.
That was always the mantra you repeated, a line you wouldn’t let him cross.
But there are quieter kinds of cruelty, sharp words hurled like knives, love rationed like punishment, apologies wrapped in gold and given with a smile.
In a relationship that slowly stripped you down to silence, you became a ghost of the girl you used to be. You learned to shrink, to soothe, to survive. You forgot how to bite back.
Until one day, you remembered.