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Cake day: September 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s okay.

    Really messed me up, tbh. Told that my purpose as a woman was to get married and “please my husband”, no matter what.

    As a teen, my desire to like boys never manifested. My youth pastor would preach about how women were princesses whose desire was to be saved by a knight, and men were knights seeking adventure. I always wanted the adventure, and I was completely ostracized for it.

    Imagine being told that your purpose is to be loved, then realizing that your true self is something nobody will ever love.

    It’s disturbing, and I was severely depressed throughout my entire young & teenage years.

    (it got much worse, but I don’t want to go over that. Just know that I escaped that shit eventually.)