Envy and Competition

Envy and Competition

Envy and Competition We wrote about our experience with competition and envy. Browse the links below to read the full post. How I Learned That Women Compete For Men “In a culture that prizes youth and beauty, she thought her value was diminishing as I was...
Envy Undermined My Relationships

Envy Undermined My Relationships

“Everything for you is effortless”, he snarled as I feverishly typed the last paragraph of my history paper due the next morning. Effortless? Did he not see the sweat on my upper lip or that I was wearing my waitress uniform trying to finish before a dinner shift?...
How I Learned That Women Compete for Men

How I Learned That Women Compete for Men

“You are no competition for me,” she said. “He was mine first. It’s not fair!” I screamed in rage. “All is fair in love and war,” she replied. We were arguing over Fred. Her words stabbed me in my heart. I was 14, He was 18. The other woman was 38 – and my mother. It...
First Moon Ceremony

First Moon Ceremony

I knew before I knew. Not because she said anything. Not because there were signs anyone else would notice. But somewhere in me, there was the same quiet instinct I’d had felt before birth. A gathering. A preparing. I found myself buying candles, choosing little...