Black Women and The Romanticization of Struggle Love

There is a fine line between being loyal and simply wasting your time.

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I have found that we have taken the phrase “ride or die” and have completely run it into the ground. Loyalty has been characterized as sticking by a partner despite them not only being unambitious, emotionally unavailable, and financially unstable but also…