"Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses."
There are foolish people who would tell you that you are being abusive because you speak the truth in love to them, because you choose to protect the innocent from them, or because you refuse to tolerate abuse from them. Freedom means being actually free.
We do not have to believe what dysfunctional people tell us to believe, nor do we bear any guilt for their decisions to smear us for standing up to them and their controlling ways.
Going through this once again in family, and absolutely done tolerating it from anybody.
It's ridiculous how those who try to provoke a response, play the victim when they get one they don't like. It's not freedom to submit to immature people who paint honesty as cruelty.
I don't do fake, and we can insist on living free from people that demonize others.
Live authentically, speak graciously, stand firm, and let the chips fall where they may.
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