…we miss out on experiencing all the love there is to experience in this world because it does not come in our most ideal packaging. We are constantly putting a magnifying glass on the love we lack rather than the one we are already blessed with. And then wonder why our lives feel so empty. We don’t get to know the full spectrum of love and romance because we draw lines as to where and how it can be encountered. I mean, all the ways that I have always desired for my life partner to love me? Are the very same ways that my friends have loved and shown up for me.
We have created such unlevel playing fields between relationships amongst heterosexual men and women. Women will pull all the strings that they can to get a man to give her a marriage proposal. As women, we will fight, sweat and even act out of character just to obtain the last name of the men we love; because it is women’s ears that marriage has been preached to louder than it has been to the ears of men.
For so long we have treated marriage like some sort of reward for good behaviour, particularly for us women. Being a married woman somehow equates to being a respectable and honourable woman. And maybe this is why as women when we get to certain ages…
Sometimes I feel like marriage is not for strong women like me. Marriage is not for self-assured, independent women like me who have the great conviction that a woman’s worth does not and…
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