There are many socio-political articles laden with statistics and analysis of the power of the patriarchy, about the history of women’s unpaid emotional and physical labour. But what I want to talk about here is despair - a profound sadness that crushes the soul.
It’s a despair that drowns, that says, ‘I’m getting older, and I just can’t do this anymore’, ‘I’m too tired’ and, increasingly, ‘I’m too angry’.
Relationships that have brought up children are floundering. Contempt has entered the scene.
You can read the full version of this story in English on SBS Life here.
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