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The woman's acquiescence (to whom? The other or myself?)

Cw: strong heteronormative presuppositions, implicit and hardly recognisable oppressive attitudes towards women in human relationships, anxiety and acquiescence. There is this person X. X was very nice to me. He asked me how my day had been when no one else seemed to recognise me. He actually learned how to pronounce my name when I felt that everyone else ignored my existence. I felt very alone at that time. I was happy to find a friend in a foreign environment like that. While I felt like a foreigner among foreigners, and I was tired of learning so much new in a foreign language and in a foreign place, there was someone who, for some reason, seemed to like to talk to me. I didn't waste too much time thinking about the reasons he was interested in what I had to say. He invited me to some really nice places and activities with a small group of people, and we shared some nice and even beautiful moments with those people in those places. At one point I saw a certain look in