"My words are loudest on the page.". On reading this essay, I'm glad she got away, alive. [View all]

Source-https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/05/my-boyfriend-a-writer-broke-up-with-me-because-im-a-writer?fbclid=PAAabTOPttQXI-l5NzsKrS4oIwJP3hnDMJP8YuQDhq6AW3GTsNPMB74875lMU

The essay writer, Isabel Kaplan, had a book published, her now Ex boy friend said " He said he considered it his responsibility to take me down a peg."



snip-" Five weeks to the day after my debut novel was published, my boyfriend, who is a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer.

I’ve been a writer for a long time. So has he. Until this summer, he was unquestionably the more publicly prominent one. When I told my friends about the breakup, they suggested he was threatened by my success. “This is the oldest story in the book,” my mom said. “Betty Friedan covered it decades ago.”


snip-"The ability to bend an inch at a time while seeming to stand up straight is a useful and gendered skill. Most women I know do it regularly. They bend until they’re pretzeled and then blame themselves for the body aches. I’ve thought a lot about these dynamics. I wrote a whole book exploring them. And yet. There I was."

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