I think it's good to look at what you think is holding you back.
I'd keep that list and look at it a LOT.
You're not your mother.
Took me a LONG time to learn that for myself.
Women of that generation had a mortal fear of
being without a man
because that society made it near impossible
for a woman to support herself.
The old social stigma thing.
That doesn't exist any more.
It's good to pull out those anchors and take a look.
We all at some time preferred the hell we knew
to the heaven we couldn't imagine.