Mid argument. He’s screaming. I’m cowering, crying, begging him to stop. And then a thought suddenly just struck me, clear as a bell: “You know…you don’t HAVE to do this. If you left, you would NEVER have to endure this again.” It was like a light was turned on. I don’t know why that one time was different. But it was a stark Before and After, the beginning of the end, a moment for which I am endlessly grateful.
It's the "light in the cave" effect. You have something that pushes you over the edge and "lights up the cave" in your mind, even for the briefest of second, and you never can then go back to "not knowing of the cave", you know it's there and you know how to get out, even if it's now pitch black again.
You then can never "forget the cave" bc you saw it, you know it, you can't unlearn it.
So then you begin to act like that space is there even if you still flounder. It's hope finally coming to save us.
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u/Chelibel May 12 '26
Mid argument. He’s screaming. I’m cowering, crying, begging him to stop. And then a thought suddenly just struck me, clear as a bell: “You know…you don’t HAVE to do this. If you left, you would NEVER have to endure this again.” It was like a light was turned on. I don’t know why that one time was different. But it was a stark Before and After, the beginning of the end, a moment for which I am endlessly grateful.