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I have noticed a change in myself, and it's important.

When I was insecure in myself, I always felt I needed a #relationship to be satisfied in #life and hopped from awful partner, to awful partner. My kind nature and insecurity was taken advantage of, and got stuck in as I hated hurting people.

I am perfectly happy without a partner since I learned to love myself.

I am okay with waiting for the right opportunity, as I value myself now, and refuse to be abused again.

A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We two make banquets of the plainest fare;
   In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure;
We hide with wreaths the furrowed brow of care
And win to smiles the set lips of despair.
   For us life always moves with lilting measure;
   We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1900-05), “We Two,” st. 2, The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 1

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…

Last boost, this is great, I firmly believe that when it comes to #marriage or any #relationship, the government or anyone doesn't have the right to get in to peoples' business in the slightest, whether it be that they are in a relationship, the bedroom, whatever, the fact the government thinks it has the right to police peoples' relationships because they are Same-sex is actually insane and should be abolished everywhere.

A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: Of all creatures that live and understand,
we women suffer most.
In the first place we must, for a vast sum,
buy a husband; what’s worse,
with him our bodies get a master.
And here’s what’s most at stake:
Did we get a man who’s good or bad?
 
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: πάντων δ᾽ ὅσ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἔμψυχα καὶ γνώμην ἔχει
γυναῖκές ἐσμεν ἀθλιώτατον φυτόν:
ἃς πρῶτα μὲν δεῖ χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ
πόσιν πρίασθαι, δεσπότην τε σώματος
[λαβεῖν: κακοῦ γὰρ τοῦτ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἄλγιον κακόν].
κἀν τῷδ᾽ ἀγὼν μέγιστος, ἢ κακὸν λαβεῖν
ἢ χρηστόν.

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 230ff (431 BC) [tr. Kovacs / Kitzinger (2016)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/75792/