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Paranoid watching, male protagonists, and choice in 'Fleishman is in Trouble'
Talking about my shifting relationship with my body and my increasing need to unyoke myself from the traditional roles a woman takes in a marriage, in couples therapy I’ve sometimes used the phrase “putting on my oxygen mask.” It feels cliche to talk this way about caring for myself. But it also feels amiss—it’s a phrase that doesn’t fully capture what …