The woman beneath my skin is alternately ravenous, elated, grief-stricken, bored.
The woman beneath my skin is sometimes at peace and sometimes dissatisfied with everything, thinking, what else, what else, what else??
She wants company, she wants solitude. She wants to write, she wants to simply be. She is bursting with stories, she has nothing to say.
She is profoundly selfish, she would do anything for her kids. She tries to be kind to everyone, always. Sometimes she fails.
She wants a new relationship. She wants to get back together with her wasband*. She starts conversations with strangers on dating apps, gets excited, loses interest, all within a couple of days, or hours, or minutes.
She determines to invest more in her friendships, then fails to return calls.
Sometimes I get so sick of her.
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