Growing Up is Hard to Do
This is actually a very thoughtful and perceptive question. And it’s a question even we as women don’t always stop to think about, especially if nothing dramatic or traumatic happened to us at that point in life. I guess the answer is that usually our brains and emotions need to catch up with what we look like or what we’re perceived as.
Growing up, we usually get attention from guys or men before we fully understand what it means or what they want from us. Sometimes, and that really is unfortunate, we get that kind of attention way before we understand it. It’s something many women had to cope with growing up. And it takes a while to adjust to this, to understand it, and to know how to navigate it.