Therapy made her so alone.

Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”
3 min readJun 4, 2021

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Photo by Molly Belle on Unsplash

Her friend Denise called her to tell her that her mother was pressuring her to get married and have kids.

“She has money set aside for my wedding,” Denise said. “And she asked if I wanted it to freeze my eggs.”

Ashtin tried to be sympathetic. It was hard. She wanted to talk about how her parents didn’t save like that, and how she should be grateful she was getting anything at all…but that…

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Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”

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