Broken man

By Cody Bret

A broken man will punish you.

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, over-giving, hoping love can fix what trauma built.

But love doesn't heal someone who hasn't chosen 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 not your responsibility to fix.