“I Can’t Do This Any More.” The Final Exit
My final words were: “I can’t do this any more.” That was it. No paragraph. No breakdown. No list of reasons. No emotional autopsy. Just a sentence. And for someone who used to over-explain everything, that sentence meant everything. When You Stop Explaining, You’ve Already Grown In emotional abuse recovery, many of us are trained to justify ourselves. We explain: Why we’re hurt. Why we’re tired. Why something crossed a line. Why we’re asking for basic respect. We build airtight arguments. We provide context. We soften our tone. We try to make it digestible. Because somewhere along the way, we learned that our feelings needed a defense. But at some point, something shifts. You realise: If someone truly doesn’t want to understand you, more words won’t fix it. So you stop arguing your case. “I Can’t Do This Any More” Is Not Weakness That sentence isn’t dramatic. It’s not blaming. It’s not attacking. It’s capacity-based. It says: This is beyond what...