Layers of Marriage
Esther Nnaemeka@esthernnaemeka604300
1 month ago
Marriage does things to women. It strips them of their formidable fabrics of independence, and half-covers them with a lace-like material, full of vulnerability, beaded with dependence. It suits them for a while, they are the envy of some, the paragon of perfection to others.
Then a tear comes, it touches the flesh, a crack, and then blood. It spills. They need to soak it up. With thicker cloths, with bandages. They realize they needed more shields, more resilience than they ever needed to survive in their times of singlehood.
Some silently but gallantly slip back into their former wares, others wear the lace till it becomes worn out, unable to cover them at all anymore, exposing them to all. It is a massacre. Of values, of fantasies, of dreams. All will eat sand.
Ps: This is not my general view on this topic.
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