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I’m sad to say that the phrase “women give up their power to men” is, for many of us, redundant. As we’ve seen so far, throughout history a woman’s role has been to give her power away to a man, so it’s been more of an unfortunate fact of life than a mistake. I can tell you from experience that discovering how you give your power away to the men in your life, and learning how to stop doing it, will be one of the most important steps you can take toward creating healthy, loving relationships.

I have a name for those of us who give our power away to men, hoping they will love us more because of it: Love Martyrs. A martyr is a person who decides to make a personal sacrifice for a cause. In the case of women, we often sacrifice our self-respect, our sense of personal dignity and integrity, and our self-esteem in order to get a man to love us.