Would you fall in love with this man? “And again I wasn’t sure whether he had really scolded me brutally or whether I was too sensitive.” An eighteen-year-old asks herself. Trust your gut feeling, answers today’s therapist. But the inner compass is also missing, “because I was so completely alone, because I couldn’t ask anyone what to think about what – you’re not going to start crying here, are you?” This is the voice of the lover – or the mother? – which pushes itself into self-talk. So stay brave: “He” might put her down, but he is “the most beautiful man I would ever see in my life.”
Terézia Mora: “Muna or Half of Life”: Relationship Violence – Culture
