🎯. It’s also why anger management classes for abusers won’t reform them and possibly arms them additional tactics in their toolkit.

thanks! Thought it was ANOTHER earthquake !

congratulations!🎉👏

lived this life: punished for *performing submission* badly.

apparently, my tone was either too sarcastic or too obsequious.

definitely, f*ck that.

🎯

fun memories: being suddenly awoken from a deep sleep as he screamed at me.

that’s fair. It was definitely not paradise (Stasi, limited movement and opportunities, etc).
but—as you said—an enviable work/life balance and a pension at retirement.

he’s got the best words

Not to mention free healthcare, free childcare, free education through college.
East German women had children years earlier than even West German women—perhaps because they knew the state would care for them and their children.

Thank you 💕💕🙏🙏

the scene on rodeo drive where people passed up priceless jewels for important things (water, food, etc) was seared into me when I read it as a kid.

His book saved my life.