I am 34. I have built a career I love. I have habits, a lifestyle, opinions. I know who I am.
Every relationship I have been in recently, the man eventually wants me to be... less. Less ambitious, less vocal, less busy, less myself.
And I keep meeting women my age who are doing the same — filing down their edges to fit into relationships that were not built for the full version of them.
My question is genuine: is this a Nigerian thing? A men thing? An age thing? Or am I just meeting the wrong people?
At what point does a woman get to show up as her whole self and be loved for it — not despite it?
Every relationship I have been in recently, the man eventually wants me to be... less. Less ambitious, less vocal, less busy, less myself.
And I keep meeting women my age who are doing the same — filing down their edges to fit into relationships that were not built for the full version of them.
My question is genuine: is this a Nigerian thing? A men thing? An age thing? Or am I just meeting the wrong people?
At what point does a woman get to show up as her whole self and be loved for it — not despite it?
