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( Bettany Larry ) When Love Turns Toxic: A Child Trapped in Her Parents’ War.” 🥺 “She didn’t deserve this.
“When Love Turns Toxic: A Child Trapped in Her Parents’ War”
By Bettany Larry
🥺 “She didn’t deserve this.”
[Prologue]
When two people fall out of love, it’s painful. But when they choose war over peace, silence over healing — and a child is stuck in the middle — the pain becomes generational.
This is the story of Leah, a quiet 9-year-old girl who never chose sides, but was punished as if she had. A child whose only mistake… was being born into a love that turned toxic.
[Chapter 1: The Happy Beginning]
Leah used to think her parents were perfect.
Her mom, Amira, had the kind of laugh that filled the whole room. Her dad, Jordan, made every bedtime story feel like a movie. They used to dance in the kitchen. They used to kiss like they meant it.
On Leah’s fifth birthday, she remembered blowing out candles while both of them held her close, whispering, “We love you more than anything.”
She believed them.
[Chapter 2: The Slow Burn]
It didn’t fall apart all at once.
First came the silence.
Then the sarcasm.
Then the shouting.
At first, Leah thought maybe they were just tired. Grown-ups got stressed, right? But one night, when her mom slammed the bedroom door and her dad slept on the couch, she knew something was wrong.
She tried to be good.
She kept her room clean.
She got perfect grades.
But no matter how hard she tried to be the “perfect daughter,” the yelling didn’t stop. The house didn’t feel like home anymore. It felt like a war zone with no safe corner.
[Chapter 3: The Weapon]
When they finally separated, Leah didn’t cry.
She just packed her small purple backpack and went with her mom, watching her dad through the back window as they drove away. He didn’t wave.
That was the day Leah became the weapon.
“Tell your dad I don’t have time for his games.”
“Did your mom talk about me again?”
“If you really loved me, you’d want to stay here.”
At nine years old, she was being asked to carry messages, hold secrets, pick sides — all while trying to just be a child.
No one asked Leah how she felt.
No one listened when she got quiet.
No one noticed that her drawings went from hearts and rainbows… to torn houses and broken stick figures.
[Chapter 4: The Breaking Point]
One night, after another argument over who would get her for the holidays, Leah finally cracked.
“STOP!”
Both parents froze.
“I'm not a trophy. I'm not a spy. I'm your daughter and I’m tired. I’m tired of being in the middle of your hate. I miss when love lived here.”
She ran to her room and slammed the door.
Her parents didn’t say a word. Maybe for the first time, they finally saw what they’d done.
But damage, once deep enough, doesn’t go away with one apology.
[Chapter 5: The Aftermath]
Leah became quieter as the years went on.
She didn’t believe in happy endings anymore.
She flinched when people raised their voices.
She didn’t trust love — not when it could turn so easily into a battlefield.
At 14, she started writing in a journal. It was her therapy. Her escape. On one page, in shaky handwriting, she wrote:
“They loved each other once. But they hated each other louder. And I was the one who heard every word.”
[Epilogue]
Today, Leah is 17.
She’s healing. Slowly. Therapy is helping her find her voice again. She’s learning that her parents’ war wasn’t her fault — and never was.
But the scars remain.
The truth is, love didn’t just fall apart in her home — it turned toxic. And when it did, the child at the center was the one left bleeding.
“She didn’t deserve this.”
No child does.
💔 A Note from Bettany Larry:
If you’re a parent going through separation, I beg you — look at your child. Really look.
They didn’t ask for the fight. They didn’t cause the pain.
But they feel every ounce of it.
Don’t make them choose.
Don’t make them carry your anger.
Protect their innocence — before it’s gone forever.
🧠 Toxic love doesn’t just hurt the people in it. It poisons the ones watching.
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