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Barbs Honeycutt's avatar

the starbucks chronicles haha! I am glad despite not remembering a lot of the night you felt like it was your choice. it could have gone badly. sometimes we think back to events and wonder: how did I make it out just fine?!

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Emma Kriskinans's avatar

‘The fact that I was cripplingly insecure and these men who I considered hot and in shape chose me felt like validation somehow (thanks to my therapist for that lovely revelation). In my mind, since I was ‘attractive enough’ to nab them – if only for a night – despite the fact I wasn’t rail thin, then there shine somehow rubbed off on me’

We really are the same person 😂😅 No lie, earlier this week I was thinking about this facet of my personality in my twenties & that I should write about it. For me it was definitely also a power thing: I felt like I wanted the power that men had and this was one of the few ways I could get it. Thanks for sharing what can be quite a vulnerable topic.

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