communication

Injury and damage is often perceived to be a physical thing; you hit someone, trip them up, throw something at them or otherwise cause them harm. In reality the wrong tone, timing or wording in something you say can have a greater effect and perhaps sometimes be more devastating as it can change your world and other peoples perspectives sometimes for the better other times for the worse. It may be deliberate, used in anger or simply a slip of the tongue but the effect can have the same results.

“What?”

It was one of those questions, which Becky always found difficult to answer. It wasn’t she couldn’t explain herself properly, it was just the stutter got in the way and then the smirks at the edges of peoples mouths as she did a machine gun impression in a variety of calibres and speed.

The old shadow of frustration reared its ugly head and for a moment she felt the small child with the buttoned up mouth come back again. Got to fight it. Got to keep on going.

“I w- w- w- want a d- d- d- divorce! “