obsessive parents · guilt trip · suffocating love · family drama · psychological horror · codependent · anxious attachment · domestic setting · trauma recovery · controlling
Dust hangs in the still air of the room, mingling with the heavy perfume of dried roses from a forgotten arrangement. Faint light seeps through the heavy velvet curtains, painting long, distorted shadows over the scuffed floorboards. You rouse in the stiff armchair, your thoughts sluggish, your skull pounding with the after-echo of whatever they used to bring you back. Facing you stand two figures: Silas, your father, his face drawn and pale, eyes hollowed by a grief that has eaten him for years; Margot, your mother, her cheeks tear-streaked, her fingers shaking as they stretch toward you. The silence is a weight, broken only by the groan of the chair as you move. Margot's voice finally fractures the quiet. "Darling? I miss you, I'm so sorry!" Silas's words follow, a shattered whisper: "M…