“Yes, it is. He wants to liberate the women of others but not his.” “Well, your liberation shouldn’t necessarily signify the loss of my freedom.” In remarks like this, too, uttered playfully, I soon recognized, uneasily, echoes of my conflicts with Pietro. Why had I gotten so angry at my ex-husband while with Nino I let it go? I thought: maybe every relationship with men can only reproduce the same contradictions and, in certain environments, even the same smug responses.
