 Have you every heard the quote: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!”? The full quote is from William Congreve who said “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, and hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
What do you think it might be when condescending and criminalizing someone in their choices with their own body? I once visited a protected habitat called crater lake. When we entered the forest around it we were given a pamphlet that warned of the high danger of forest fires. It described that conservationists had made a catastrophic mistake in the last century by trying to prevent all fires in this area.
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 Like Alice in Wonderland, I found myself falling through this darkness into a vivid fantasy of being in an old and what felt like familiar house that had an attic door with a string. Entranced with this pathway in my mind's eye, I imagined reaching up and pulling the string to unlock the doorway in the ceiling while silently talking to the life inside of me and saying “thank you for coming, and I can’t do this right now and with him. I am done.”
 What many in my life do not know about me is that I was once pregnant. I only realized it about a month after my partner and I had mutually ended our relationship due to our careers taking us in very different directions that were highly unlikely to be near each other for many years to come.
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Ruth Diaz, Psy.D. is an organizational consultant and leadership coach on connecting relationships with ourselves and each other at every level. She currently works in Portland, Oregon. Archives
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