yes, leaving is scary. but you know what's even scarier? waking up in ten years and realizing you taught yourself how to live with the disrespect. realizing you forgot who you were because you kept trying to earn love from someone who never gave you the same effort. it's even scarier to look in the mirror one day and not recognize the person staring back. to see someone who stayed quiet when they should've spoken up. someone who settled for half-love, broken promises, and mixed signals. calling it love when it was really survival. that's not loyalty, that's self-abandonment. and that's scarier.