Mar 11

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I Don’t Think Most Women Know How To Be Strong.

We learn strength from men.

I used to think I was a strong woman.

Ha! Funny me.

Life slowly showed me that my way of being strong was incompatible with having a happy family. It was incompatible with happiness, period.

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