I read a Christmas Bride which closes the Stapelton series. I was amazed by the warmth and forgiveness of all people involved. If Mrs Balogh is channeling something, she's probably channeling how life is in STO worlds, because it seems surreal that so many people at the same location can be so positively human.
I was glad that Balogh didn't diminished the gravity of what happened because the victim was a young man. All youngs should be protected, but boys seem to be expected to suck it up, move on and turn out fine.
I also finished reading "Tremaine's true love" and will continue with the series. I liked all the characters but really liked George. The man took a path which was against a part of his nature but it helped him find a purpose in life. And he did it by being true and honest to his wife.
As I was reading this book, I coudn't help but think that it was going counter to everything I was seeing in the outside world. I knew it before, but it really struck this time. I was commiting a thought crime, I was truly a lost sheep in regard to woke crowd.
Indeed, Gorges's story would send the LGBT fanatics into a fit.
The feminists (the nazi ones) would also go into a fit over Nita's choice of stopping what she was doing for the sake of her fiance and her family. (She confessed she didn't liked it all that much at the end, now that she understood her family's perspective, she and Tremaine found a compromise).
Also, I wanted to share that I that things are moving in my inner landscape. I am more tuned to my emotions, I feel them more finely and with more nuances, it's hard to explain. It's weird to say it, but I have the impression that a "new Self" is forming, like a pregnancy. People around me told me that I've been more feminine recently.
I also have begun to "see" how much I internalised the societal and familial expectation on what a woman should be if she wants to be loved, secure, successful. Much of my pain and resentment of being born a woman came from the fact that I hated that " success" revolved so much on landing yourself a rich and powerful man to whom you'd be a doormat. I was also not pleased of being physically weaker than men, that we were the victims, those who suffer in silence etc etc... Everything I saw around me told me that I'd eventually come into the fold, accept my fate and resign myself to a life of quiet despair.
I tried to live a life were I would make my own choices, discover as much as I could, become a person who could think by herself, who wouldn't shy away from the truth even if was painful. I wanted to be free. But I had a "Ahah" moment a few days ago that I wasn't free. I could see that I held those beliefs in me, and was still suffering, because I didn't fit into the mold society had ready for me and I knew that deep down I didn't wanted to fit into this mold. I had the impression that all those beliefs were like a veil between me and ...my true self, let's call it that.
I realized that my hesitancy of being a wife and a mother came partly from the incouscious rejection of the demands of society. Now I am breathing a bit better, a I see I can be those things without betraying myself.
I was glad that Balogh didn't diminished the gravity of what happened because the victim was a young man. All youngs should be protected, but boys seem to be expected to suck it up, move on and turn out fine.
I also finished reading "Tremaine's true love" and will continue with the series. I liked all the characters but really liked George. The man took a path which was against a part of his nature but it helped him find a purpose in life. And he did it by being true and honest to his wife.
As I was reading this book, I coudn't help but think that it was going counter to everything I was seeing in the outside world. I knew it before, but it really struck this time. I was commiting a thought crime, I was truly a lost sheep in regard to woke crowd.
Indeed, Gorges's story would send the LGBT fanatics into a fit.
The feminists (the nazi ones) would also go into a fit over Nita's choice of stopping what she was doing for the sake of her fiance and her family. (She confessed she didn't liked it all that much at the end, now that she understood her family's perspective, she and Tremaine found a compromise).
Also, I wanted to share that I that things are moving in my inner landscape. I am more tuned to my emotions, I feel them more finely and with more nuances, it's hard to explain. It's weird to say it, but I have the impression that a "new Self" is forming, like a pregnancy. People around me told me that I've been more feminine recently.
I also have begun to "see" how much I internalised the societal and familial expectation on what a woman should be if she wants to be loved, secure, successful. Much of my pain and resentment of being born a woman came from the fact that I hated that " success" revolved so much on landing yourself a rich and powerful man to whom you'd be a doormat. I was also not pleased of being physically weaker than men, that we were the victims, those who suffer in silence etc etc... Everything I saw around me told me that I'd eventually come into the fold, accept my fate and resign myself to a life of quiet despair.
I tried to live a life were I would make my own choices, discover as much as I could, become a person who could think by herself, who wouldn't shy away from the truth even if was painful. I wanted to be free. But I had a "Ahah" moment a few days ago that I wasn't free. I could see that I held those beliefs in me, and was still suffering, because I didn't fit into the mold society had ready for me and I knew that deep down I didn't wanted to fit into this mold. I had the impression that all those beliefs were like a veil between me and ...my true self, let's call it that.
I realized that my hesitancy of being a wife and a mother came partly from the incouscious rejection of the demands of society. Now I am breathing a bit better, a I see I can be those things without betraying myself.
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Take care
) for Balogh!
