I Left a “Good Man” When I Realized I Was His Life Manager

our culture understands leaving a villain.

It does not understand leaving a man who is “nice.”

Nice men are protected by the myth that nice is enough.

And women are punished for wanting more than “not horrible.”

At one point, someone said to me, “But he never hit you.”

And I stared at them, stunned, like they’d offered me a trophy for surviving.

“No,” I continue reading …