You didn’t cause that car wreck at all. If anything, you saved us from it.” His eyes squeezed shut so hard I knew the fight inside him was barreling around in his mind, trying to find its way out. I wanted to hug him, to pull him close, to make him see that trauma shouldn’t have blame. Yet, he placed all that blame on himself. I saw it now, and I was starting to realize why he’d told me he would control this relationship.
