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Society is the abusive boyfriend from whom I can’t escape

14 Friday Oct 2016

Posted by smfleegal in I try, I write, Writer me

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abuse culture, anxiety, rape culture, society is an abusive boyfriend, timeout, triggers, Trump is rape culture

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Photo by Flickr user Melissa Morano.com (Creative Commons license).

I have four posts in drafts that I can’t bring myself to publish.

Like many of you, this election has me wound up, unwound, locked up, flayed open, anxious anxious anxious. I didn’t really realize until yesterday how bad it’s been, which is itself a symptom of how bad it’s been because I’m kinda boss at the self-awareness in recent years. Out of necessity.

So it was startling to me to tally all the evidence that I’m struggling to hold myself together right now. Continue reading →

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