A curse cuts your partner, making them pay for your failure and pain, and provides an escape from suffering the furrowing of your soul. It is a judgment, a stance of contempt, that freezes the other in the pronouncement that there is nothing good to be enjoyed. “You are such an idiot.” “You will never change.” “You don’t think about anyone or anything other than yourself.” “You ruin everything I try to do.” “You are a liar.”
