This morning, before I even had a chance to wake up, my grandma had words to say.
When I left to run some errands, it took until my boyfriend had to go to work. I went back outside to say goodbye and as soon as I stepped in the front door, she mentioned calling someone about going back to school.
It isn't good enough for her. It never is.
I received another rejection email today for a job... They don't want to hire me either.
My grandma thinks it has to do with my attitude, but it doesn't. No matter how upset I am at home, I still try to go in there with a smile and make them see the best side of me I have to offer. But it's not good enough.
I tried explaining to my grandma that I have so much to deal with right now, and it's pretty fucking overwhelming. She doesn't understand. I feel like she
ALWAYS has to shit on my parade. When my boyfriend got paid yesterday, we paid of half of one of the two loans we had. Now we only owe about $270 instead of $460. I was excited about that, until my grandma said that I wasn't giving enough effort to other things in my life and made it seem like nothing.
Today, I went to buy a vape pen, so that my boyfriend and I could stop smoking cigarettes - another positive step. But my grandma didn't see that. She only said how she doesn't like vape pens and that if I wanted to quit I should just use Nicorette gum because it doesn't cost "So much money". Again, no excitement that I am actually trying to quit cigarettes. Only negativity.
It's impossible to be happy around her. I try not to, actually.
She started in with the threats again today that if I can't find a job then she is gonna have to kick me out. Not that it matters that I have been putting in applications, and that I had interviews, and that I might just get straight out fucking discouraged for all the rejection that I have been through.
I haven't cut in a long time, almost 5 months. However, today was the exception to that. I wasn't able to control myself, and fight the desire to self harm. So I burned. If I hadn't of fought so much with my grandma, I think I would have been able to avoid it. But fighting with her was a trigger, it still is.
My boyfriend thinks that I am a child. He gets really angry with me when I am a bitch to my grandma, but I mean... He needs to love me for everything I am. Not to mention the fact that my family already doesn't like him. My dad is convinced that A is stealing money from him, and I can only defend him so much. I have defended him, but what it really comes down to... is that if he is willing to do dirty things to people who deserve it, then where is the line drawn? I may not be able to admit to my wrongs right now, but if he can wrong someone else, what is to stop him from doing it to me? I understand where my dad is coming from, but I don't want to give him up. I need him... because if I had to do all of this alone, I would seriously lose my shit.
But am I willing to turn a blind eye to the carnage, in the name of love?
Am I willing to pretend I don't see it, to keep what I want without letting go?
Yes.
I know I will get hurt. I know it. But I can't break up with him. I need him. I love him. Somehow this all has to work out. Somehow we have to be okay.
I am trying to fight my depression, and not let it drag me under. I don't think my grandma understands depression, in that it isn't like being sad. It's a crippling version of that. Where I can't think straight. Where I can't find reasons to eat, to remember to breathe.
I have to fight with my ED. So that I can starve slowly, and maybe slow the inevitable death that is coming for me. I have to fight myself, because I am as much a part of my ED as it is a disease.
She doesn't know about it though, and I know there is no way in hell that I am going to out myself in that way to my family. That's something they just can't know about, but that doesn't mean that it isn't there. That it isn't a struggle.
I am trying to pay off these loans so that they are no longer a weight on my back. So that I don't have obligations to pay a certain amount of money to certain people at certain times of the month. But my grandparents wouldn't be able to understand why I took the loans out in the first place, and why I did what I did. They would only consider it another mistake and say that if I wasn't with A I would never have done that. They would blame him, and it isn't fair to leave all that to him. So is it really too wrong for me to want to right these things before I jump back into school?
That would just add more stress, and as it is I feel like I am mentally fragile. I feel like I can't handle all of this, but I don't know how to rely on anyone else.
Should I even be with my boyfriend? Does he deserve someone better? Maybe I am too young for him, and maybe I am wasting his time. Maybe he should find someone better, but I am selfish enough to keep him around, even if it isn't the best thing for us both.
I'm afraid that something will happen in my relationship and I will end up on my own again. I don't want to be on my own, as pathetic as that is. It is just a little bit easier to have my boyfriend there, someone who loves me despite all of the things that I hate about myself. He brings me sunshine when I don't think I have any, and I couldn't imagine him being taken away from me. But somehow, he will be.
Eventually, all of my inadequacy will catch up to me and he will realize what he could be doing rather than being with me.... and he will go.
Oh god, how I fear that day.
Anyways, I am not sure how much sense this makes.... I guess it's just to go take a shit ton of laxatives, go smoke my vape pen and maybe a bowl, and sleep. I don't deserve the rest of today.