The one change that worked: I told the men in my life I loved them – and my world opened up

At first I felt uncomfortable telling my dad, brother and friends how I felt. But I soon found it liberating, and once I started, I couldn’t stop Until my thirties, I didn’t tell my brothers or my dad that I loved them. I had never told my friends, whom I love, that I loved…

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