Some men leave me because I am unpredictable – sunshine one moment and storm clouds the next; the scent of summer rain with the sleep-depriving aftershock of thunder. They cannot keep pace with the fighting that follows the kissing that follows the argument that follows the laughing in unending circles.
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Sometimes the shame is not the beatings, not the rape.
The shaming is in being asked to stand to judgment.
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He believes that after him, I will have nothing left in me to love, to make love, to give pleasure.
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The longer I stretch the act of the happily married couple, the more I dodge his anger. It’s not a test of talent alone. My life depends upon it.
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She is working on the principle that to consult a man is to make him feel like a king, and to report to him is to make him feel like a god.
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Fight or Flight.
The old formula again. I haven’t given up fighting, not yet.
The flight only comes when the fight has failed.
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needless questions of men, the worthless jealousy of other women
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The soul-talk where I congratulate myself on every moment that I do not have to bother about the incorrigible nature of love, its heavy baggage and bitter arguments, the
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The shaming is in being asked to stand to judgment
Refiloe Masitamembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalu
Sometimes the shame is not the beatings, not the rape.