how ✨unbelievably reasonable✨ i am (and how hard everyone worked to force me into my villain origin story)

hi. 🩷
it’s me.
the “emotionally intense” one
with the terrifying habits of…
documenting dates and reading statutes.

i just wanted
to take a moment to say
thank you
to everyone
who worked so hard
to make sure
i look wildly reasonable in comparison.

genuinely.
you shouldn’t have.

thank you for proving
i tried so hard
not to
(fucking) be here.

from where i’m sitting,
it’s actually adorable:

💞 i emailed…and emailed again.
💞 i sent documentation
💞 i reported
💞 i waited
💞 i followed “proper channels” like a little civics textbook

and the collective response was:

🏛️🕊️⚖️

“hmm…what if we
ignore her
until she builds an:
online shrine

to our
seemingly fraudulent behaviors, 🕊️
then act
absolutely 🔥brand new🔥
because she
built a tab on her website.” 💫

thank you
for helping me prove
i am, in fact,
the least reactive person
in this room.

🤙😐😶😶‍🌫️🫥

in my opinion,
that’s art. 🕊️
y’all speed-jogged
the “reasonable person exhausted all options” element
for me.

thank you
for making my coping skills
look like ✨overachievement.✨

✨✋😬🤚

i am, admittedly, “a lot”:

✨🦄 single mom
✨🦄 baddie who survived manual strangulation 🏆
✨🦄 law student (clinging to life!)
✨🦄 cleaning toilets and court files in the same week

instead of,
idk,
committing crimes
or burning my life down,
i:
🌈 ✨made timelines
🌈 ✨built a domestic violence cathedral through a website
🌈 ✨learned what anti-slapp is
🌈 ✨color-coded my trauma like a psychopath… with a new printer

and the hot take is—

“she’s out of control.”

babe,
if this is “out of control,”
i truly fear what you think
“regulated” looks like.

thank you for being
more upset by my adjectives
than by the documented patterns.

babe!
i talk about
strangulation,
concealment,
economic abuse;
the comeback is:

“your honor, she said ‘fuck’ in pink font.”

🤡 🚩


ok, so:
from my side,
it just keeps highlighting
that the part you can’t legally fight
is the actual conduct,
so you keep cross-examining
my vibe instead.

🖤

thank you for the unintentional character reference.

😌🙏✨🕊️

i’m just
over here like:

aw. 🥹 you noticed.”

because personally,
if i were really the danger,
i probably wouldn’t have:

🔥 asked for help in writing it down instead of making threats
🔥 built an archive instead of a revenge plan
🔥 turned my meltdown into publicly verifiable evidence

dang.
but that’s
just my ⭐️ little mental illness: ⭐️
extreme,
chronic,
terminal
🧚‍♀️✨ reasonableness under pressure.

in conclusion, with love:

if i’m your “crazy one,”
and i’m the person:

🙏 following orders,
🙏 refusing to abuse institutions,
🙏 obeying no-contact,
🙏 speaking on my own platform,
🙏 labeling opinion as opinion,
🙏 and walking myself into court instead of into (fucking) crime,

then…
✨maybe
the real problem
isn’t my sanity.
maybe
it’s that
i refuse to play—

”sit down and shut the fuck up.”

💖🥰💞

anyway.
thank you for your
continued contributions
to my “clearly not the unstable one” narrative.

💫

thank you, sincerely.

for calling me “crazy,”
in a context where
my every action has been
🥺 documented,
🥺 measured,
🥺 restrained,
and
🥺 absurdly polite.

so.
with
all
due
respect

and
an obscene number of records,
the girl
you really
should’ve left the fuck alone.

🩷

Samantha Lee Lowe

sammie lowe is a single mom, law student, and founder of bodhi cleaning co.—an ethical, femme-forward cleaning collective rooted in fairness, ritual, and rage. born from survival and built with purpose, her work redefines what it means to clean house—physically, emotionally, and systemically. she blends practicality with a little bit of magic, runs on justice and white vinegar, and believes that women shouldn’t have to choose between making money and making meaning. this isn’t a side hustle. it’s a standard.

http://sammielowe.com/
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