Read not with eyes …
Relationships?
It’s “Guns and Roses”
Clearly, we long to feel loved, accepted, and understood. However, many women feel undervalued, unfulfilled, hopeless, dismissed, intimidated, and taken for granted. Many feel like they keep hitting the same wall — the same disappointments over and over again.
Same experience, different names …
Constantly, we are being lectured on how to love ourselves, yet we get lost and confused along the way. It’s true: not knowing ourselves, our values, how to set healthy boundaries, or how to voice our fears without being judged can have a huge impact on our self-worth. However, the world is not always ready for that conversation. Too often, equality is resisted because it challenges old ways of thinking and long-held habits of control.
We live in a world of double standards. The moment women stand up for themselves, they are often misunderstood or unfairly labeled. Normal needs, hopes, and expectations are dismissed, and the emotional impact of that is too often overlooked.
I didn’t know having emotions was considered weakness.
In our minds, as women, we often dream of a world of possibilities, even when surrounded by limitation.
Perhaps it is time for us to help guide a better tomorrow — a world shaped with more compassion, balance, and understanding.
Now allow me to repeat:
“Promises and deception
wrapped around my heart,
with precious lies that weighed on my soul.
They called it love.”
I, Noujoud Yassine, shall always speak.
#whennanawrites #NY
@Noujoud_yassine