“They Skipped My Graduation…” – A Story About Letting Go of Toxic Family

That message was the point of stillness.

The locks changed

Living alone in a small apartment that he paid for himself, he made a decision he had avoided for years: he closed the door for good on emotional and financial abuse

He called a locksmith and  changed the locks  .

His mother had a copy of the keys “for emergencies.”
But he knew that, after refusing to pay those $2,100, that key would become a weapon.

The young man explains that, in the past, his family had entered unannounced to “borrow” items, use his kitchen, sleep on his sofa, or simply “check” that he was spending the money “correctly.”

“It was my house, but it never felt like mine.”

With the new locks, I felt peace for the first time.

For a short time.

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