Returning To The Well

Returning To The Well

Why I’m Done With Pretending

A Letter to the Women Who Feel Too Much

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Emily Rose
Jun 17, 2025
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You’re too much. Too loud. Too emotional. Too disruptive. Too… (fill in the blank).

It’s all been said to me at one point or another; sometimes gently, sometimes as a knife, sometimes as a joke. By friends, by family, by teachers and lovers, by colleagues. Those words; echoes of a society that fears what it cannot easily digest, took up space in my mind …

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