“She can’t keep a man”. It’s so easy to keep a man ya’ll. I promise. All you gotta do is allow them to lie and cheat in peace, don’t challenge their patterns, and don’t address anything they do that hurts you. You’ll keep them for years and years until they find their next toy.
an eldest daughter once said being the firstborn means you’re automatically irritated by incompetence. not because you’re harsh, but because you were never given the room to be incompetent yourself. the daughters who know… know.
This is an apology to my mom for all the times she came home from a long day of work and my unemployed teenage self had the audacity not to have done the simple tasks she asked of me. I get it now.