Twisted Fairytale

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So. What is a fairytale?

Define the word 'fairytale'.

Further down the road, define 'fairytale wedding'.

What is called a 'fairytale wedding' can wind up a catastrophe, just as how people can mis-spell 'fairytale' as 'fairytail'.

Speaking of weddings. What is the significance of a wedding? More importantly, what is the significance of a wedding vow?

To love each other to the end of time, to care for each other and to build a loving family.

At least, that is what I understand and what I make of it.

But then... How many people actually carry this out through thick and thin? How many people, as husband and wife, as parents, actually remember the vow and the promise they made each other and made it to the finish line?

With those questions laid out, more comes. Especially when a pair have gotten out of synch.

You know how couples are usually in synch with each other, heart and mind, when they're in love?

What happens after that?

In comes the kids.

What happens then?

Marriage, I've heard, seen and learned, is a delicate thing. Very much so that it's become a three-legged marathon, such that if one runner runs faster than the other, they may or may not be able to regain their tempo. That rhythm that is so essential in a relationship.

Understanding,

Respect,

Love.


What's more, when all these crumble, or at least becomes one-sided... It becomes a burden to the one still standing tall in the relationship.

Ah... right. One-sided relationships.

One-sided marriages, rather.

Imagine a happy family, sitting around the living room. Both parents, smiling away and caring for a smiling and utterly happy child. It melts one's heart to witness this, doesn't it?

But.. behind closed doors. What could happen?

Anything.

That's right, anything.

Now I'm not in favor of the following situation, but I've heard of it quite a long time ago.

Imagine an utterly angry wife, one whose mindset is 'your way or the highway'. Something that people seem to coin as 'queen control'. We take these people as the ones we keep away from, correct?

But what of the husband? The child? The two people who are still clinging onto the relationship, the ones taking this 'punishment'?

It may seem odd, but this does happen. A wife who drives her husband up the wall and gets all high and mighty about everything, and a husband whose definition of love renders him unable to stand up to the wife out of the pure thought that he could never hurt the woman he loves. Above all... This controlling wife vents out on the child.

Such a sad, sad ending for a story that started off to be such a fairytale...

Now that it's become a fairytail, where do we turn at this point? If there are people related to a couple with the problem I've presented above...

What can be done?

What can be offered to ease the pain to their suppressed cries for help?

Because deep down, we know.

We all know.

These people are hurting. They need help. All it takes is for someone to talk to them, or for them to come for help.

To those who know people like these. I'm hoping above all hope that you would be willing to help them, one way or another.

Build their confidence. Make them feel special.

Make them find a new strength within them with your help.

And above all else...

Pray that the new strength they found will be enough to tip the scales and make their relationship well again.

For all their sakes.

And Silence.

Ever had those days when everything looks like it's your fault?

Ever really thought that nothing can sway you so long as people have your back?

Ever kind of thought where that would leave you should those people whom you thought had your back just out and ditched you, for even a moment?

You just feel like screaming. Some people, they don't yell it out. They don't talk it out. Mainly because they don't want to. In other cases, they just can't. There's no one to hear them and even if there are, they don't want to have to burden others or ruin their day by letting them see another person hurt or cry.

Nah, that'll make anyone's day miserable.

Furthermore, what's there to stop someone from giggling behind the crying person's back? What's there to stop the common notions;

"What, she's crying over THAT? Puh-lease..."

"This is gonna get on YouTube/Facebook and beat Chris Crocker in views for sure...!"

"Oh come on, I've just gone to the top of the world to the pits of Hell. Stop your whining and get over it already, shit happens."


But you know... the people who are talking it out right then... they just don't need that.

They feel like shit as it is, they feel so alone. The many options in their heads as a cry for help plumetted down to just one simple thought;




"Leave me alone."





And that's exactly what they do.

If it were ever possible, they'd just stay cooped up in their rooms, crying to themselves, beating themselves mentally or just plain shut down. At times like these, everything just seems too much to take.

They feel that nobody cares.

Nobody trusts them.

Nobody loves them.

Nobody understands.

And worst of all, no matter how you say that you really do trust, love, care and understand them, it'll just go the opposite way to the crying person.

What is there to do for them?

It's a dead-end no matter where you go. You sit around and look at them, you just make yourself look like an idiot for just sitting there and not doing anything.

You try to talk to them but you know that the moment you so much as say "Hey..", they'll explode in your face, throw you out of their rooms and just scream for you to leave them alone.


What can people possibly do to help?


What can the person possibly do to ease that pain?


As a matter of fact, what can anyone do when the hurt person has started getting ideas, staring out of the window, at the sky, almost longingly, then look down at the cold concrete of their 2nd floor bedrooms?


What can anyone do to stop the inviting mantra;

"If I disappear, it'll all go away."



Above all else...

Do you think that the people who turned their backs on these poor souls, as pitiful their crimes may have been, and as trivial their problems were...


Do you think that they would think twice next time when they realize that all that person felt like screaming out was one simple word?










Do they realize...




All that rings in their heads...

















"Help."