Life is like an abusive boyfriend: he keeps knocking you down, and you refuse to leave.
It's dark, but the parallel is true, I think.
But that doesn't make the situation hopeless. Quite the contrary. We may hit the ground more often than we'd like, but damned if we're going to be defined by our scrapes and bruises.
We want to be defined by how we stand back up, dust off our knees, and the clever quip we toss over our shoulder as we keep going.
Life may be tough, but we are so much tougher.
If life is an abusive boyfriend, it's the poor schlub from Enough, that Jennifer Lopez movie, or Sleeping With the Enemy starring Julia Roberts's. Yep, this sort of thing is a trope, it's a whole sub-genre of films, women who take all they can take and then finally spring into action.
Because tough women know how to bide their time, wait, plan, and fight fight fight for the kind of life they deserve.
If it sounds draining, that's because it is. There's nothing as exhausting as getting up every morning, going through the paces of your day, falling down defeated, and having to get up the next morning and do it all again.
But you know what? You can absolutely do it. You've got an army of powerful women rooting for you. Don't believe me? Check out their inspirational quotes and I dare you not to feel ready to go another round by the time you're done reading.
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