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LaMakhosi (La Mar)'s avatar

Thank you so much!! Everything you wrote I relate to. Somewhere in my forties I was clear no form of good enough or for now was acceptable any longer even if it meant NEVER being in another relationship in life. I was finally able to see that folding myself in ANY way was unloving for me so how could that be good for ANY of us. I don’t shine so you aren’t uncomfortable? I don’t stand on business with my newer standards because I might be the only one in the room? I had to explore all of that breaking the nonsense down πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜†πŸ™ƒπŸ€—πŸ˜πŸŒ»

Empress Theadora's avatar

Thank you for sharing your experience. Because this to me is our own version of internalized patriarchy as women. I literally heard myself start to quietly shrink in that man’s presence and said β€œgirl stand up!!!”