If I Never Met You

by Mhairi McFarlane

‘Yes. I think women spend a lot of time beating themselves up about how they caused or deserved male behaviour, and it doesn’t happen anything like the same way in reverse. They get on with doing what they wanna do.’

Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limitless number of chances to hurt you.

What would success feel like to you? She could finally answer that: self-respect.