Less alone, less abandoned

We talked [in the consciousness-raising group] about the difficulties with our husbands and lovers—their betrayals. We examined a woman’s life, sex and self, feeling and mind, ego and world, freedom and tradition, creativity and enslavement. And slowly, slowly, the painful loneliness that my marriage had built around my life like a smooth cold wall began to hold the possibility of a door to a place where there were others who cared, who understood, who had perhaps suffered similarly. I felt less alone, less abandoned. Vera Klement