Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

Would people say she had a temper if she was a man? They’d say she stood up for herself when it was needed.

Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”

And he started to slip, say things that he really meant after I’d known him a few years. Men can only hide it for so long, you know?

This really resonates with me and what I went through with my ex-husband!

If that was something he’d say to his wife’s father, what sorts of things must he be thinking? Or saying to Lucy?

Ugh, this was totally me.

People don’t believe women who fight back. When a man lashes out, people say he’s lost control of his temper or made a terrible mistake. When a woman does it, she’s a psychopath.