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by lilsunnybee
4913 days ago
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"Sorry you're permanently broken as a person. Although i feel a strong affection for you, you're just not someone who should ever be in a romantic relationship. Because obviously you're just going to end up hurting anyone who gets close to you in the long run, and be hurt when they leave you. Have a nice life. Glad i don't have your problems!" |
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The simple fact is that you don't have the right to say that to someone, not ever. To consign someone to permanent failure, to even call into question their reality as a person ('broken') is unutterably cruel.
We all have the right to choose who is in our social life, and we have the right to choose our boundaries, as arbitrary and possibly awful - or healthy - as they may be. There really are people in the world that have serious mental illness, and it's okay to not want them in your life. But that does not give you the right to consign them to a label, and to predict their future, and to dehumanize them, calling them 'permanently broken'.