So what should YOU do?
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1933-1945
“I’m the man of the house (although he didn’t act like a responsible one, financially or otherwise), and you need to follow me and support me in everything I do.”
However, she wasn’t considered by him to be a good wife because she started to say “no.”
In the end, she lost her house that she bought before she married, lost her car, lost her savings, nearly lost her mind, plus the police showed up so often that they knew her by name – because when she disagreed, the beatings would begin.
For him, it was a personal affront that she wouldn’t agree with him.
She told me, “I was brought up to be compliant with my husband. But he was an idiot, and the results proved it. He was misogynistic and would never take any advice – but instead would do the opposite.
“I was going in two different directions. How can you follow someone if they’re taking you to a dead end, and all the time you know that direction is wrong?
“Even a rat has enough sense to jump off a sinking ship. I had to leave the relationship. I had to save my life.”
Just because people you “should” believe say something, demand your obedience to follow, repeatedly lie to fit their own purpose but call it the truth, doesn’t make it true.
The good news. If it weren’t for him, she never would have the clarity she has now to speak her truth, especially in a male-dominated industry where she works.
Her ex trained her to no longer be a wimp and not value others’ reactions more than trusting herself. To stop being a people pleaser.
She knew better. But she allowed herself to be bullied by someone who was metaphorically blind and demanded unreasonable loyalty.
Eventually, she allowed herself to act on what she knew, what she had the courage to honestly see, and leave him.
Sounds crazy? You think you wouldn’t do something like that?
This is what belief systems can do. If a person believes something, even though the belief is false or doesn’t make sense or can be harmful, people often stick with it.
Her belief was she was to be compliant with her husband. See where that belief brought her?
What erroneous beliefs might you have? I know I erroneously believed my share. You can get past yours, too.
Previously posted on Soulgoals’ Blog on November 1, 2021
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