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From “Stupid Housewife syndrome ” to Master’s Graduate: Rewriting My Life Story

There are some labels we never asked for, but somehow they get stitched into our skin.Mine was “stupid housewife.”It was a name given to me long before I even understood what it meant  a gift from a patriarchal culture where a woman who speaks, questions, or dreams is seen as a threat. In a worldContinue reading “From “Stupid Housewife syndrome ” to Master’s Graduate: Rewriting My Life Story”

I Started Living at 50: The Quiet Awakening of a Woman Who Forgot Herself

For half a century, I existed  but I wasn’t truly living. My life moved within the walls of duty: housework, laundry, grocery lists, school runs, and meals to prepare. I did everything that was expected of a “good woman.” Society taught that a woman’s purpose was simple  to marry, have children, and stay with herContinue reading “I Started Living at 50: The Quiet Awakening of a Woman Who Forgot Herself”