My 5-Year-Old Niece Whispered, “The Chair Hurts Me”—Then She Showed Me What She Had Hidden Underneath
That irritated me.
“If you thought something was wrong, why didn’t you say anything?”
She looked ashamed.
Important question.
Not because everybody should have magically identified abuse.
Because hindsight makes people claim intuition they did not act on.
I stopped rewarding hindsight.
Gabriela visited Chloe eventually.