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on autonomous women and the men who "love" them, then lose their minds when they can't pin them behind glass like butterflies

Demanding partner #1 relinquish their autonomy in order to coddle partner #2's insecurities is not “setting boundaries" and we need to talk about the dichotomy of attraction

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Rebecca Woolf
Jul 11, 2023
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First, I want to make it clear that this post isn’t an attack on men in any way but rather a calling out of a certain kind of enabling we do societally for the dangerously insecure.

Women are just as …

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