Related unrelated. I think the best thing about having survived a lot is that there’s no feeling you’re not comfortable sitting with and facing. Because you have faith in the other side. You know it exists. And that you’ll cross over.
Once you realize people hate themselves and have low self esteem, you understand more why they’re so nasty, competitive and pessimistic. Let them tend to that misery alone.
Heterosexual marriage has essentially allowed every man to live the life of an aristocrat at home- never cooking his own meals, never having to pick up after himself, he doesn’t even have to raise his children. Of course men are hysterical that this is being revoked.
it’s scary the way you can kill off the love you have for someone. you just continuously remind yourself of the reality of the situation. you internalize how unfairly you were treated (even unintentionally). you do the work & then one day, you feel nothing for them. not a thing.