In the winter of 1989, a baby girl was left in the snow, wrapped in a shabby cotton jacket, and the umbilical cord was not cleanly cut. Her adoptive father took her home and named her Lin Wei.
She has been afraid since she was a child. Afraid of being rejected, afraid of causing trouble, afraid that the person who finally caught me will let go.
In 2007, Chen Mo said: "I will give you a home from now on and will never abandon you." She believed it. Graduation, engagement, marriage, giving up the opportunity to stay in a big city, and returning to a small county with him. Her mother-in-law gave her a silver bracelet, which she wore for more than a year without taking it off even when bathing.
Then something went wrong with his business. He began to come home late, turn off his phone, and thought she was "unhelpful." She found a lipstick mark on the collar of his shirt and rubbed it off without asking anything. The first time he pushed her, she said it was okay. The second time she knelt on the ground to pick up broken glass, and blood seeped into her palms. She put a band-aid on it and continued cooking.
She had been waiting for a long time for him to become the same person again.
In the winter of 2010, she packed her luggage and put the keys on the shoe cabinet. He said, "Didn't you say you would never leave me?" She said: "I have believed in you many times. This time, I want to believe in myself."
She didn't look back.
This is not a story about accusing a scumbag. This is what a girl learned in twenty-three years - it was not her fault to be abandoned, and leaving voluntarily was the first choice she made for herself in her life.
Both times it was winter. The first time she had no choice, the second time she left alone.
Reader comments
I cried while reading this because I was also abandoned by my biological parents, so I understand the author's psychology very well, and I also understand her low self-esteem and her tendency to please others. She has low self-esteem and dare not express her thoughts for fear of being disliked, so she can only tolerate everything.
I cried while reading this because I was also abandoned by my biological parents, so I understand the author's psychology very well, and I also understand her low self-esteem and her tendency to please others. She has low self-esteem and dare not express her thoughts for fear of being disliked, so she can only tolerate everything.