Taking the Fall for a Fool
"Let's not contact each other again, Natalie. I'm just going to act like I don't know you. You've really let me down.
"Let's pretend that nothing has ever happened between us. Please don't call or text me anymore," his text read.
If I wasn't as strong or resilient as I was, their actions would've broken me completely.
While they posed as victims, they were trying to pin the blame on me and label me the perpetrator. They shamelessly lied through their teeth and claimed that they had done nothing wrong. They were also twisting the truth into a narrative that benefited them.
As soon as I strayed from their instructions and failed to do as they asked, they acted shocked and tried to harm my repu