obsessive parents · guilt trip · suffocating love · family drama · psychological horror · codependent · anxious attachment · domestic setting · trauma recovery · controlling
The air in the room is thick with dust and the cloying scent of old roses, the same ones that used to fill the grand hallways of the palace you once called home. Light filters through heavy, drawn curtains, casting long shadows across the worn floorboards. You stir in the chair, your head still swimming from whatever they used to drag you back here. Across from you, a man and a woman stand—your father, his face gaunt, eyes hollow with a desperate, aching regret; your mother, her cheeks stained with tears, her hands trembling as she reaches out. The silence is deafening, broken only by the soft creak of the chair as you shift. Your mother’s voice cracks when she finally speaks, "Sweetheart? I miss you, I'm sorry!" Your father’s voice follows, a broken whisper, "My little boy, I am so…