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“Be brave. Claim it. Say it. Break the cycle.”

“We had all been taught to fill in the hole that men left, to be quiet about men behaving badly, to move on with grace.”

“To see the moments, over twenty years, when I hadn’t protected myself,…”
“I had put myself here, one decision at a time.”

“I did it for love. There is nothing shameful about that.”

“I knew, in his world, the voice had to be male for it to land.”

“There was something growing in me, an almost nihilistic desire to set flame to the remaining structures of my former life, to the very safety I clung to, to the fiction that I could depend on anyone other than myself for protection, to the idea that being quiet was the only way to be good.”

bro she’s gotta kill him

wrap it up, this is what internalized misogyny does to you cuz why tf you craving a “stay at home mom”, why not a “stay at home dad”

my eyes cannot believe what they’re reading right now; this woman is deadass squandering generational wealth over a MAN, OVER A MAN WTF. HELLO?!?!!! where is her family, friends, LAWYER HELLOOOO how are you this rich and that dumb when it comes to money. HOW IS HE A PROTECTOR AND PROVIDER IF YOU ARE THE ONE BUYING HOUSES AND APARTMENTS.

even the richest, whitest, and most privileged educated women are not exempt from the doom of patriarchy, the consequences of a society not treating a stay at home mom as an actual job, and the naivety of cutting off their streams of income thinking their husbands will forever stay and support them financially no matter what