What's The Worst Thing A Man Has Done To You?

It would have been an off-putting question from my Uber driver, had we not just covered the grief of her child’s death through the Malibu Hills towards the 101 freeway.

Lena’s in her fifties and lives in Newport Beach. “What’s the worst thing a man has done to you that a woman could never? You don’t have to tell me.” Lena lost her child to a common illness. A single woman, she now owns two homes and two cars. She drives Uber for “walking around money.”

People either find me cool and detached or open and verbal, but I match energy. People tell me nothing or everything, and that's because I’m fine with either. There is no in-between. In our twenty-minute drive, Lena has shared a lot of trials, and I readily return the energy.

”Until last week, I thought the worst thing a man had ever done to me was violent abuse. But, I realized the worst thing was to