I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You're suddenly somebody's wife. And you're like, 'Oh, I'm half of a couple now. I've lost me.'
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.
At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.
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