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“I grew up in love with women's stories, with the ways their labor made itself visible everywhere, even when men would prefer to pretend that it wasn't the scaffolding of their very existence.”

Work Invisible Storytelling Invisibility Invisible Work Invisibility Of Women Invisible Labor

Book:Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Source: Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“I was mad that I was so sensitive in the first place, trained in an empathy so granular and heartbreaking and Jewish, that my view on the family was so robust that I couldn't just be plain angry like a regular teenager. So inclined was I toward empathy and understanding that I didn't even know how I really felt about anything, whatever that even meant. I saw everything from everyone else's perspective and I felt bad and sad for us all.”

Family Empathy Codependency

Author:Nina Renata Aron

“Thinking about adults putting on a happy face for children, or worse, being unable to put on the happy face, is devastating. That we maintain this dishonesty with them, that we must. I have a longing to protect the kids from coming into some consciousness of the fact that taking care of them is difficult. I always imagined that keeping that fact from them was an essential part of good mothering.”

Children Parenting Motherhood

Book:Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Source: Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“Fucking him is like a "session," like a whole thing, and afterward I leave the apartment and ride the train in the pleasant waking coma of the freshly traumatized.”

Book:Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Source: Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love