🕊️ Why I Refuse to Protect the Reputations of Those Who Harmed Us
🗓️ 30 May 2025
✧ I Will Not Be the Vault ✧
I will not be the well-behaved daughter
who ties a ribbon around generational abuse.
I will not be the quiet survivor
who edits her own story
so her abuser can keep their image intact.
I will not shield the legacy
of anyone who endangered my body
or my children’s.
✧ Silence Doesn’t Protect. It Conceals. ✧
“Don’t tell anyone.”
“Keep it in the family.”
“Let it go.”
Translation?
“Protect me from the consequences
of what I did to you.”
They call it privacy.
I call it coercion.
Silence is their alibi.
✧ I Am Not Colluding With Abuse Culture ✧
Silence rewards the abuser.
It punishes the truth-teller.
It teaches children that politeness
is more important than protection.
Not in this house.
Not in this life.
✧ My Voice Is Not a Weapon—It’s a Shield ✧
I don’t speak to destroy.
I speak to sterilise the wound.
To correct the narrative.
To name what was done.
To ensure that it cannot be done again.
✧ My Children Will Not Inherit My Silence ✧
They will inherit strength.
Clarity.
The unflinching ability to say “That was wrong.”
Kindness is not silence in the face of cruelty.
And I refuse to perform it ever again.