Trauma Bond's- (Heads up—Adult content, trigger warning: abuse)
I don’t want to delve too much into my childhood just yet, or maybe not at all, since it’s part of the book I’m writing, but I need to touch on it to explain my mindset regarding Logan.
I grew up thinking I had a normal family. Now I understand that I lived in an incestuous environment with a narcissistic, dominating mother who cursed the day I was born, constantly reminding me that my purpose was to work, obey, and please her.
To paint the picture, my mother dominated the relationship with my biological father, who was submissive to her. To me and my sister, however, he was a monster. When he was arrested for child abuse, he killed himself in prison. I was nine years old.
My adoptive father has been part of my life ever since. What I haven’t mentioned is that he’s also my biological uncle and another victim of my mother. She controlled him entirely, ordering him around and making him do awful things to satisfy her. I never understood the power she had over him until I experienced it myself. All I ever wanted was her love, and I would do anything for a small sign of affection.
Things took a turn when my mother discarded him, and it became my responsibility to please and care for him. I won’t go into further details, as this is enough context to give an idea of why things with Logan turned out as they did. If I do end up sharing this with Logan, he can ask deeper questions, and I’ll answer honestly now that the truth is out.
We had another argument today. He’s hurt and confused, struggling to understand how I’m in a relationship. Honestly, I don’t fully understand it either. It just feels natural, though I know deep down it won’t last. Still, there are feelings I’ve never experienced before, which makes it complicated.
With Logan, despite how much we connected on the first day we met.
I have this unexplainable love for him.
Over the years, my relationship dynamic with Logan has shifted countless times, and I think we both just leaned into it, perhaps too much into my trauma. We’ve been friends, fuck buddies, distant strangers, lovers, parents, siblings, and now, in a way that makes sense to me, I have this daddy relationship with him. If he knew, he probably wouldn’t have played along with it as he did.
I took his understanding, love, and desire for granted, and he became my Daddy in my eyes. What was role play for Logan was something serious to me, and that’s one of the main reasons I can never have a normal relationship with him. I have my personal reasons too, but this stands out the most.
In my ideal world, he is my Daddy now. In fact, my father seems to have let me go to have that with him, often saying he’s going to die soon and I’ll need a new daddy.
But I know Logan can’t be that, can’t be what my dad was. When my mother disappeared on one of her longer-than-usual adventures, my dad stepped up. He protected, provided, let me have boyfriends, but I was also expected to fulfill his needs.
I know this sounds strange, and I question whether this was love with my father or a trauma bond. But every moment I had with him wasn’t pain—it was love, affection, and care. That all awakened in me when Logan and I started getting intimate. I was already looking to him for guidance and as a father figure.
I do love him, but I understand his pain. I can’t have the best of both worlds and expect Logan to just wait around for me as the days pass. In that way, he’s nothing like my dad. Logan depends too much on me and my family, which is understandable—it’s all he’s ever wanted. And I failed, not once but four times, to give him a family, a child of his own to love and nurture.
I have to let him go. After today’s blow-up and being confirmed as the villain in the story, I think staying away is truly for the best.
He needs more than just me in his life; he deserves a normal relationship. Logan is so easy to love, if only he’d make the effort to put himself out there more. I want him to be happy, but I don’t want him to forget me either.
It’s so complicated. I feel like I haven’t explained it well enough, and he still thinks I don’t understand him. Honestly, I don’t half the time, because he shouldn’t have to put up with this.
I don’t think he’ll ever truly know how much I care or how much it hurts when I can’t feel for others the way I feel for him. That’s why nothing ever lasts—I just live in moments, whether they’re happiness or lessons.
I don’t think he’ll ever understand me either, and I feel exactly the same way he does about that.
I’ve been a coward. I’ve hurt both him and myself, and I know my time with him is nearly over once he finds out.
But whatever happens, he has to know. He can’t be blind to it. He has to know I love him in a very special way, even if I can’t be what he wants me to be. For that reason, I’ll have to let him go—but this time, fairly. This time, we’ll talk, and we won’t sugarcoat everything again.
This whole thing is messed up, but honestly, my life has always been like that.
I'm not an evil person; I didn’t plan this intentionally and never wanted to hurt anyone. It's always been my fear. I guess I'm wired wrong and need serious help before I hurt anyone else or myself, or before the remorse destroys me or I harm myself.
And Im sorry, so so sorry.