You want me to be your Eve, whom you will wear like a wedding ring on your hand. You want me to give up my name and take yours. Not only that—you want me to preserve the honour of your name and continue your family line. You want me to leave my birthplace and come to live in yours because you believe that is what is best for me.
You want me to be your Eve, caring for your home, bearing your children and raising them. You want to place me in portraits that you will proudly show to everyone.
You want me to hide my beauty, to become a shadow of myself so that I do not invite temptation and sin. At the same time, you admire other women, turning them into objects of temptation.
You want me to become your shadow, keeping the fire burning in your home and protecting your name from gossip. Meanwhile, you are busy hunting free hearts to whom you cannot promise anything. Because I can no longer tempt you. Because they cannot become your slaves. You are a hunter. And this is the justification you have invented for yourself.
You do not want me to be whole and independent—a free woman whom you can love. No, you want me to be your other half, the one you can blame for the lack of harmony within yourself.
