Victim
I have been too kind, for most of my life. Especially to women. It started with my mother. She was so good at getting me to feel sorry for her. Her situation. Her lack of money. The way men had treated her, all men, not just some, she said all. Later my sisters would learn that all they had to do was make me feel guilty for being a man to get me to fix their car, or carry shit that was too heavy or that they just didn't feel like carrying. Partners would tell me how unfair it was that it was "easy" for me to make money, because I am a man. As though crawling through mud, and shit, and motor oil are easy. I was abused, by my...