Take Me Off Your Mailing List
It feels so right. Often when I feel this way it’s combined with it feeling so wrong, but this is not that. My only complaint is that I have a set number of working hours- I’d work for longer if I could.
A pattern I’ve noticed is efforts to change my behavior disguised as a compliment. Oh it’s a safety concern, it’s too dangerous for a beautiful woman to…
Go to that bar
Wear that dress
Work that job
In the past I’ve been a thing to look after. Now? I just can’t. My lifestyle is incompatible with having a boyfriend, both my work and my personal life. I feel no desire to change this.
I am requesting that men take me off their mailing list. Texts from potential sexual or romantic interests irritate me when in years past they meant everything. I always want more and more and I’m getting it now, but not of what I thought I wanted. The honest truth is that I’m nobody’s girl, and attempts to make me are only successful when they play on the parts of me that are too painful to look at and even then, there’s always an expiration date. “Modern women this, modern women that”, I’m dropping my hoes and not looking back.