"No, don’t. That’s not why I’m telling you this. You have nothing to be sorry for. My reaction to your trauma was horrific but it’s because I didn’t understand that what I was doing was unhealthy. By just stuffing my feelings down, pretending I had overcome it all, I didn’t deal with it in the slightest. I didn’t even understand why it made my blood boil so much when you kept talking about nightmares. Took me going to a mindhealer to finally see it. You were the reminder of what I knew deep down—that I hadn’t overcome my trauma. I hadn’t even begun the healing journey. But here was the person I loved, rubbing it in my face every day."