According To Mary

According To Mary

How Instinctual Is Surrender?

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Feb 05, 2026
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Surrender is an instinct. Surrender is also a choice.

An old, biological surrender runs through human bodies: the nervous system yields when resistance feels dangerous, when fighting feels futile. You freeze. You appease. You go still. This is not decision — this is survival.

But another surrender exists entirely.

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