M. De La Croix
Author
A memoir about choosing devotion—not because she was controlled, but because she was freed first.
A Memoir · 300 Pages
Get the Ebook — $9.99“It’s seriously interesting and addictive and makes me look at my own journey and feelings. I’m only 1/3 into the story but I already don’t want it to end.”
— Marta Klinta Steele“Every submissive needs to read this, but so does every dominant. At the core of it all, it is about building honest and fulfilling relationships. A page turner.”
— FetLife reader“A great read for self reflection. It reignited fond memories of the joy I felt when I found my path. Worth the read, submissive or not.”
— Amazon reviewerAt twenty-two, Marian had everything modern feminism told her she should want: independence, ambition, freedom. She was also broke, anxious, and deeply unhappy. Three abandoned educations, years of aimless travel, and a growing sense that the life she was building looked nothing like the one she actually wanted.
Then she met a man who didn’t ask her to keep performing strength. Instead, he gave her something unexpected: permission to stop. What followed was a transformation that contradicts nearly everything we’re told about women, happiness, and relationships. Her anxiety disappeared. She built a successful business. She found a peace she didn’t know was possible.
Why Submissive Women Are Happier is her unfiltered memoir—part love story, part cultural critique, part confession. It’s the story of a woman who tried the path she was supposed to follow, watched it fail, and chose a radically different one. Not because she was forced, but because she was finally free enough to want what she actually wanted.
It isn’t a self-help book. It isn’t a prescription. It’s one woman’s honest account of what happened when she stopped apologizing for her desires.
Chapter One
I spent most of my twenties trying to become the kind of woman the world told me I should be. Strong. Independent. Self-sufficient. I collected degrees I never finished and stamps in a passport I couldn’t afford, and I told myself the anxiety keeping me up at night was just the price of ambition.
The truth was simpler and harder to say out loud: I was performing a version of myself that made everyone comfortable except me.
The day I stopped pretending wasn’t dramatic. There was no breaking point, no tearful confession. I just got tired. Tired of pretending that the knot in my stomach was normal. Tired of calling loneliness “independence.” Tired of waiting for the happiness that was supposed to come with doing everything right.
M. De La Croix is a writer and entrepreneur living in Montreal, Canada. She spent her early twenties drifting through three countries and three abandoned educations before finding the structure and partnership that transformed her life.
Today she runs a successful creative business with her partner and writes about relationships, desire, and the gap between what women are told they should want and what actually makes them happy. Her work has been featured on podcasts reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners.
Why Submissive Women Are Happier is her first book.
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