Thank you
@MayhemTrinkets ugh, you put it perfectly into words.
No family that cares about your well being and image will let you be a shitty person, will allow for rumors about how terrible you are to grow, and will watch as you pine over the person that cheats on you over and over.
Yes, there is a factor of personal accountability as an individual, but family
is family. They’re the ones who are supposed to have your back and converse with. For family, you make the effort to go the extra mile to understand. While yes, Melissa can be pretty irrational, there is no emotional substance whatsoever for her to believe anyone cares for her. She’s lived with knowing her father only cared for her brother since she was young. So if that was really not the case and he just didn’t know how to talk to his daughter—
so what?
Him appearing and making an effort now does not erase nor invalidate the walls Melissa has built around herself because of youth.