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Women don’t need new year resolutions: we’re expected to improve ourselves every day | Yomi Adegoke

Don’t worry if you haven’t kept your promises this month: there’s always the rest of the year to feel the expectation to make yourself better
The drive to ‘be your best self’ is now constant for the average millennial woman. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images (posed by model)

At the start of every year, my friends and I discuss new year resolutions: comparing and contrasting them, keeping each other on course and consoling each other when we’ve all caved come February. But a number of them were uncharacteristically unbothered about the chance

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