The Day I Realized My Family’s Guilt Trips Didn’t Work Anymore

By Angela Perez

This is for anyone who has had to get free.

Not free in the poetic sense. Not free in the Instagram-quote sense. I mean the real thing.

Free from people who use guilt as currency.
Free from the family story that says your purpose is to hold everyone else together.
Free from being the one who always comes running when people guilt you into meeting their needs with no care for your own.

At some point you have to see the pattern.