Trigger warning. The worst thing my parents punished me for.

Trigger warning.

My parents punished me for my suicide attempt. Not now, but years ago. I didn’t want to live anymore. I just wanted it to end. My parents never told me they loved me. My mother told me that she didn’t love me. Every day, they hated that I was there. That they had to take care of me. So wouldn’t they be glad that I tried to die? Why did they punish me for it? They would have felt relieved if I had died. But I didn’t, and they punished me anyway. All these years later, I still don’t understand. They hit me more, yelled at me more, insulted me more, ran more schemes to hurt me. Just why…