Where I Stand When I Think of Marriage

Deborah Kristina
2 min readApr 28, 2024
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I have little to no faith that a man would treat me gently if I were to marry.

Why would it be in a man’s best interest to consider how tired I am and help me with household chores?

What would stop him from grappling and throwing me to the ground?

He would know that I would be weaker than him physically so why wouldn’t he think that he could take…

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Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)