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Dear Joris,

no hoover will ever heal a relationship.

22/04/2024

Ruth Silbermayr
Ruth Silbermayr

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Dear Joris,

we used to be in a long-distance relationship. I ended the relationship because you blamed me for your affairs, for your lies, for your not owning your own stuff.

You started a huge smear campaign against me – when you could have simply decided to be kind and loving and to respect my privacy instead.

You have spilled your hatred and anger onto me – which are completely misplaced emotions.

The person you blame, it isn’t even me. It is not a mirror of who I am. It is not mirroring back who I am. I am a kind person, whom you had to portray as bad, as evil, as someone who is completely different from the person who I actually am.

I am not the perpetrator, even though you certainly had to paint me as the perpetrator and you as the victim.

I gave you one chance after another chance, and time to change your behavior, which you didn’t.

Have you ever been with a person who disrespected you?

(On a side note: The name mentioned on Wikipedia is not his real name, and neither is his date of birth – he is actually older than me).