“So, do you still love me?”
“You had a fight with your mom over lunch.”
[Deadpan] “How did you guess?”
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She is so mean. I am 48 years old, and it still takes my breath away–the fact of it, the skill with which it’s accomplished, and her complete unawareness of her own brutality.
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Perhaps a gentle, chiding phrase such as “I tol’ you that bitch wuz ka-razy!” would work.
The way this works is that they stab you to feed on the emotional blood. And they use the confusion you as a good person feel about whether you provoked or deserved the attack to addle you.