http://womensvoicesforchange.org/jackson-and-sanford-consider-the-women.htm Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:40:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://womensvoicesforchange.org/jackson-and-sanford-consider-the-women.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5477 Dr Patricia Allen Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:51:35 +0000 http://womensvoicesforchange.org/?p=7514#comment-5477 It does occur to me that self care needs to become a valued commodity for women themselves. Selflessness often engenders just more expectations from others that we women of a certain age will manage all those in free fall in our families and communities. It is not in the best interest of the men and often grown children in our lives to encourage us to find our spiritual path, to pursue our passions because, after all, someone has to do the laundry, buy the food, make them a home. If women do not define the boundaries of their lives and line those boundaries with armed sentries, then we can expect no more than the media presents us to be: dutiful, understanding, forgiving, selfless, until our time here just runs out. This is a conversation for our time. It does occur to me that self care needs to become a valued commodity for women themselves. Selflessness often engenders just more expectations from others that we women of a certain age will manage all those in free fall in our families and communities. It is not in the best interest of the men and often grown children in our lives to encourage us to find our spiritual path, to pursue our passions because, after all, someone has to do the laundry, buy the food, make them a home. If women do not define the boundaries of their lives and line those boundaries with armed sentries, then we can expect no more than the media presents us to be: dutiful, understanding, forgiving, selfless, until our time here just runs out. This is a conversation for our time.

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