Broken man

 From Johanna Lynn Davis

A broken man will punish you for loving him.

Not because your love was wrong, but because it 

exposed everything he was running from.

Your softness triggered his buried wounds.

Your patience made him feel unworthy.

Your light became too bright for someone who

never learned how to receive warmth without 

suspicion.

He'll push you away and then resent you for

leaving. He'll confuse chaos for chemistry and

silence for safety. And every time you try to pour

into him, he'll make you feel like you're doing too

much, asking too much, being too much.

Not because you are, but because he doesn't 

know how to be enough.

You'll find yourself shrinking, second-guessing,

overgiving, hoping love can fix what trauma built.

But love doesn't heal someone who hasn't chosem

healing.

Love doesn't save someone who's committed to

sabotaging everything good.

A broken man will call your boundaries disrespect.

Your honesty, an attack. Your care, control. And all

the while, you'll be drowning in confusion, trying to

decode behavior that was never your

responsibility to fix.