‘Suzie,’ she says, and she sighs. ‘I worry sometimes about how much you’ve let this affect you.’
Suzanne's mother says several awful things in this chapter but this is such an insidiously cruel thing to say to your child who has survived abuse at the hands of your own husband I can't quite believe I wrote it. (But I did, and it's important, because it's this side of domestic violence that people don't tend to see or hear about. Wounds from emotional abuse go so, so deep.)
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