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Salma El-Wardany: Heartbreak Made Me Whole Again

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You Don't Have to Surrender Your Headspace When You're With Other People

I feel that I've been raised in a world that taught me to give and to give everything without questioning what you were giving. There's a different demand we place on daughters in a way that we don't place on sons, right? We're not taught to be selfish or to go after things that we want because no one is actually saying the worst thing as a woman. So then when you put that opposite someone in a relationship and those gender roles play out, of course, you're not going to have any headspace at all. That's just thinking about yourself. You might have to talk to a neurologist, you might have totalk to a psychologist,. But I can only

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