Dear Anita

sorry to hear that you are not feeling good , it takes a few days at worst and hopefully you will feel better , just rest even if you can`t sleep and have a lot of liquids , unfortunately that is the extend i can help .

Women continue to earn significantly less than men in the same level of work with the same level of education and experience. it`s not true , women with same education in same level of work have equal salary.

Most families promote their daughters and wives to stay at home thats not true either , i understand you read it in some websites ,and they still have this old picture of iranian family , but actually a lot changed from my childhood and lots of them were for the better and some of them  not so much , regarding modesty , actually i believe the limitation of some families made their children overly sexual when they reach certain age . obviously the government has a huge effect on freedom but there are some oppressive people who wouldnt care if even there was freedom , they would force their wives and daughters to wear scarfs , stay at home and putting down because of their culture not because of religion , religion is just a weapon for them

at least my parents are not guilty of that , lol . i can give them that credit .

believe being strong mentally and emotionally would help a lot. What do you think?“- I agree of course with what you wrote here, absolutely! im quoting myself to give you the context , as i said i studied  abroad which was a european country not necessary the most liberal one but still in europe , i had classmates from different nationalities , Icelandic , swedish , Israeli , french and sometimes it amazed me how they could grow up in the environment where apparently  they were protected  by law and government but they still choose to be in very bad and abusive relationship  , they wanted to be miserable by choice . thanks god they were the minorities but i wonder why and that made me believe and thats more about self respect and being emotionally strong , they didn`t believe they could live alone . obviously there are more into this problem

but if you believe you cant handle your life alone you would put up with very bad situations and very bad people , im guilty of it too mostly about my choice of friends and almost once with a man

i hope you feel better now , after few hours you wrote your post and don`t go outside

get better

farnaz