Dysfunction

It’s How You Were Taught To Believe

That keeps you stuck where you are.

Nanci Arvizu
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Published in
4 min readJan 9, 2021

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Photo by Gian D. on Unsplash

*This is an excerpt from my current WIP, Red Flags or Flowers, expected release date fall 2021)**

As the data from the Red Flags or Flowers 10 questions come in, I am astounded to see so many common denominators within these relationship equations and of women realizing how much of their life has been lost. The loss of her self-esteem to her ability to believe in herself, her dreams, and mostly, unreplaceable years.

Too many stories included young children and a man walking out. A father with children from another woman who, while being targeted by another mother of ‘his’ child as a villain, is surely going through their own personal hell.

He’s able to turn the mothers of his children against each other, deflecting the attention away from him. The Attention and the Responsibility of being a Father.

And while those two women are making his life so hard and unbearable because they’re so angry at each other, and not him, he’ll go find someone else who just wants to have fun, and he likes having fun more than he likes listening to angry women.

So ‘girlfriend’ #3 gets educated on hating the other mothers of his other children and is hearing the same broken…

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