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"I'm still trying to understand why you find these attempts at contact so infuriating. It's really hard for a parent to stop wanting to reach out to a child, to accept that the best thing they can do is nothing."

"Because he is — still, again — prioritizing his desire to say what he wants to say over my expressed wish not to talk to him."

......thank you, all the reading about rape culture and consent and boundaries that I have been doing. I'm not sure I had ever articulated it in quite that way before.