Podcast Episode 81: Hope With out Expectation: Why Girls Should Forge Their Personal Path


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Host: Lynn Nichols


In a world the place ladies have been taught to hope for change—hope for assist, hope for equity, hope that males will at some point “step up”—this episode is your wake-up name. Hope with out technique is a lure. And girls are performed ready.

On this blisteringly sincere episode of the Narcissistic Abuse Restoration Podcast, Lynn confronts the truth so many ladies now acknowledge: even in marriage, many ladies are nonetheless on their very own. From performative partnerships to systemic betrayals, we discover what it means to cease pleading for inclusion and as a substitute construct a life impartial of outdated expectations.

This isn’t a rejection of hope—it’s a redefinition of it. Hope rooted in motion, in training, in monetary independence, in selecting your self over the fantasy of being chosen.

We unpack:

  • The societal script that rewards ladies for passivity—and why it’s rigged
  • How marriage, motherhood, and emotional labor proceed to profit males
  • The 4B motion and why opting out of conventional roles is gaining traction
  • What actual empowerment seems like: co-housing, mutual support, sisterhood, and neighborhood
  • Why advocacy doesn’t require permission—and by no means did
  • Learn how to domesticate emotional, monetary, and bodily self-defense
  • What resilience means in a society that also doesn’t worth ladies’s well-being

This isn’t about bitterness. That is about readability.

It’s not about hating males. It’s about not centering them.

The trail ahead is collective and uncompromising. Whether or not you’re married, single, child-free, or opting out solely—this episode is a rally cry to shift from ready to wielding energy.

We transfer ahead collectively—with radical honesty and unbelievable power.

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As if it wasn’t utterly apparent, the ladies are on our personal.

Even the married ladies.

Many males marry for clout even when they hate their wives. The societal advantages, wage will increase, and never having to handle family or emotional obligations are the trade-offs they’re advantageous with. They simply need her to look good, smile, and be compliant, respect him in public, so he can impress his man-friends.

And when he has to resolve to assist being a part of the person membership by his actions or assist gender equality, his vested curiosity in sustaining the established order garners extra weight. And for a lot of ladies, it did too.

Sure, the economic system is necessary too. Do ladies management the economic system with their purchases? What would occur if ladies stopped shopping for cosmetics?

And whereas we’re not utilizing the Not All Males qualifier anymore, as a result of we’re adults on this room and you’ll determine that half out, the actionable power and the mixed hatred males have towards ladies is past hope.

And as Mel Robbins says, “Nobody is coming for you…

And particularly not even your husband.

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The place are the articles which might be written by males who concern that their daughters received’t be capable of divorce their abusive husbands, or the place are the articles that don’t need their pregnant wives to die as a consequence of problems in labor? The place are the lads advocates who vie for girls’s rights as a result of it’s a human proper, not as a result of they profit from it in some way (i.e., have a spouse and daughters)? The place are the MAGA ladies, who now perceive they voted in opposition to ladies’s rights?

The lads don’t know the way it feels; they’re simply glad it isn’t them.

They hope we are going to overlook their betrayal, so they can transfer on as a result of our discomfort, rage, and betrayal are inflicting them discomfort.

Hope is a strong pressure, but it surely will also be a harmful lure when begging or pleading for others to vary.

They hope we are going to overlook, so they can transfer on as a result of our discomfort, rage, and betrayal are inflicting them discomfort.

Girls will not carry lingering hope that males will present ladies assist, or encouragement or will even run to the grocery retailer to get spaghetti sauce.

We’re on our personal.

To those that assist us, we’re grateful and we recognize it.

Everyone knows in regards to the 10 boys in a home experiment and the outcomes. Why did they ever go away the lads in cost?

For hundreds of years, ladies have hoped for significant shifts in society , hoping for equity within the office, for his or her rights to be upheld, and for males to face as allies within the battle for equality.

And whereas progress has been made, the truth is sobering: ladies can’t afford to pin their futures on the promise that males will step up.

As a result of they maintain their boot on the neck of the girl and marvel why she feels any ache in any respect, they simply don’t perceive.

The grim fact is that almost all males aren’t going to guide the cost for gender equality, advocate for pay fairness, or dismantle patriarchal programs which have benefited them for generations.

Some will battle, and for that we’re grateful, however these allies stay the exception, not the rule.

As a result of they maintain their boot on the neck of the girl and marvel why she feels any ache at all.

For ladies in america, this implies going through a future the place collective motion and self-reliance aren’t simply empowering however mandatory.

It’s time to look at what this shift means in a sensible sense.

How do ladies transfer ahead in a society the place male assist for change is sparse, and programs stay stacked in opposition to them?

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