She Doesn’t Owe You a Smile

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even one.</p><p id="7263">A smile is holy, a smile is kind, but a fake forced smile doesn’t help a single soul, especially the one wearing it. It’s not a sin, not a crime, to have a straight face.</p><p id="e551">Why are women told we must be sweet, gentle, serving, always emotional in happy, positive, motherly or sisterly ways? <i>Is this for their own good?</i></p><p id="b799">She doesn’t owe anyone but herself a smile in the mirror, she can smile when she wants to, not because she’s filling a role passed down to her from too many women before — hiding their pain behind their painted smiling masks.</p><p id="e876">We can all smile…when we want to.</p><p id="7b1a

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"><i>Another post of mine about writing therapy:</i></p><div id="efc9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/when-panic-overcomes-i-write-d9b795e3b677"> <div> <div> <h2>When Panic Overcomes, I Write</h2> <div><h3>On different forms of writing therapy to help your mental health.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*tu05q8nt-WwFOJj-3Yf9zg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>