Credit: Grace Campbell
3 min read
After realising she felt reliant on male validation, comedian Grace Campbell took a hiatus from dating in January 2022. She didn’t expect to continue with her “man ban” – but the self-imposed breather turned out to be transformative.
Content note: this article contains references to rape that readers may find upsetting.
At the beginning of this year, I decided to give up men. That sounds so dramatic. Obviously, I wasn’t planning on giving them up forever. No, men have and always will be my greatest passion.
Passion like the passion Gary Lineker, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville have for football. That’s me, except the balls I’m talking about aren’t footballs, and there are no offside flags, only red ones.
I’ve always loved men. But at the beginning of 2022, I realised that I had an unhealthy need for their validation.
Not in a cute, Ariana-Grande-Needy way, but rather in a sending-hundreds-of-WhatsApp-messages-til-you-reply-to-me way.
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