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Saving this one to re-read from time to time ♥️

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For many people it’s extraordinary difficult, if not impossible, to form a close intimate relationship with someone without wanting to control them. I’ve been on both side of that dilemma.

That’s particularly true for men who come to the relationship with something like a “savior complex.” A great many men — particularly, but not exclusively conservative religious men — want to save women from a life of “sin.” That usually means keeping them from having sex with whoever they want. Which is just another way of saying they’re not entitled to their own autonomy.

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