I feel like I got shot.
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:19 pm
Cleared this out, upon further reflection.
All you missed is that breaking up sucks.
All you missed is that breaking up sucks.
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Nope. He was asking you to make huge sacrifices and wasn't willing to do the same in returnConcorde wrote:I'm convinced that I deserved it.
No. It's not too much to want to be basically happy and have some small amount of control over your life.Concorde wrote:I feel like I was asking for too much.
No. You are not selfish and you never have been.Concorde wrote:Being too selfish.
Because you are your own person, not a rubber stamp of the Mormon female ideal. (And honestly, most Mormon women aren't like this, either, especially not Mormon Millennial women, in my observation.)Concorde wrote:Why can't I just be like every other Mormon woman and be content to stay at home and just play the perfect role of homemaker?
That's a very wise thing to observe about yourself.Concorde wrote:I don't fear commitment; I fear containment.
The world would be a much better place if all women could choose motherhood or housewife-hood without feeling pressured into those choices.Concorde wrote:I don't mind staying at home and raising the kids and being a homemaker. I honestly don't. But I want it to be my choice-- I don't want to be pressured into it.
And you should be.Concorde wrote:I need it to be my choice, and I need to know that I am supported in whatever I want to do with my life.
And it shouldn't.Concorde wrote:He doesn't own my life. My life does not take a backseat to that of my children without my having a say in it.