Leaving the paternal home for marriage is experienced as weaning

Evidence

Tearing oneself away from one’s family is a definitive weaning: this is when she experiences the anguish of abandon and the giddiness of freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1258

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact statement of the married woman’s existential situation: the ambivalent pairing of abandonment-anguish with the dizziness of freedom.