28/12/2023
You could ask someone to help you wash the dishes every single night for 2 years, & with every ask, you express how it bothers you that you have to ask, & that you wish they would just do it because they should want to help you anyway. & with every expressed frustration, they heavily sigh & roll their eyes, but they help.
Then by the 731st night, you don’t want to ask. You say: “You know what, I’m tired of having to ask you to help me. Not only is it annoying to have to ask, but you complain when I do. I don’t think I want to be with someone I have to ask to do the dishes.”
& so you split, & they’ll run around telling everybody that you broke up with them over a few dishes, when it was so much more than that.
Moral: People will weaponize your last straw. They will tell the story in a way that makes you look like the irrational one. & sometimes, there’s nothing you can really do about that. But know that you know. Those close to you know, they know, & spirit knows.