This Modern Woman FEELS Too ENTITLED
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the issue of stepmoms in Zimbabwe and their role in raising their children. We also talk about what it means to be a stepmom and why it is important to have a good relationship with your stepmother.
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you know when your dad brought it over do you guys have like a meeting like oh i'm gonna bring
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this woman over it's gonna pretty much become like a mother in the house was there ever like
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that discussion yeah he told me that he's seeing someone and everything and i was really excited
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and when she first came i was so happy i was like oh my god i finally have a mom now
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yeah how did that first like encounter like how was that for me i was happy because i felt like
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i'm gonna have a mom i'm gonna have a mom because obviously my mom's sister obviously i broke up
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with my dad but i was like okay at least now i have someone that can go to you know because
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there's certain things that was happening to me when i was growing up you know the feminine stuff
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i can't talk to my dad about it so i was happy that she was coming into the picture you know i
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really loved her and when i found out she had kids and stuff like that i was like oh my god this is
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really did you guys live with the kids as well her kids no her kids are back home all right so how how
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did how was their reaction like meeting you at first it was good but i know when it's the the shift
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happened when she fell pregnant do you know things it's just emotions female emotions when
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they're pregnant i i was i was too young i didn't understand nobody explained to me i was just oh
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how was i supposed to know that oh okay she's acting like this because she's pregnant and she
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also got a certain issue if someone spoke to me and said okay she's acting like this you know
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being blamed for my brother my stepbrothers do you know how losing my stepbrother is it's a bit
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i just think like it's just hard for me to believe on the outside looking in that your mom had a
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problem with you or your stepmom sorry sorry stepmom stepmom had a problem with you your dad had a
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problem with you and like my dad never had an issue with me until the end yeah i know but if he's
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kicking you out it just seems like you probably had a part to play like it doesn't seem like you
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should demonize all zimbabwe men yeah how is that a cultural problem that is a cultural problem
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because i know i know a little bit like a little stepmoms and stepfem stepdad's families that get
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along my my friend is as a stepmom and they pretty much get along so i don't know how it's like a zim
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issue because my problem now is like you going with the narrative like all zim men are like this
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when we are not all like this and the culture is not like this the culture is built on family
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but what happens a lot is when people go into like the west coming from zimbabwe it's built on secrets
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no there's no family it's all secretive everyone keeps everything hidden no no you all try to
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pretend that everything is perfect do you think children are entitled for a parent is able to
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do you think a parent should be able to explain themselves to a child i think so yes
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you have to explain yourself do not why okay why no i think that's a must because like with my
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children personally right if there's a situation i will explain to my children like this is a
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situation like due between this person that person depends on the situation of course
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because they're still very young but the children need to be aware otherwise it's going to be like
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how it was with her where no one told her anything you're just kept in a room i think you become
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westernized i think you become westernized and you just become entitled to feel like you
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that they deserve you deserve an explanation because if a parent is providing that is their core value
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like i'm here to provide for you anything else this is the reason why zimbabwean culture is i'm
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completely you have to be able to speak to your child you can't silence your children you guys do
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this all the time oh mom i'm going through this shish oh i'm dating this boy you can't date boys
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yeah but that's because we live in the west with a bunch of whiners where it's like this problem
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that problem that they used to live through plagues like they used to live through real problem now we
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have all this trauma this mental instability i'm not talking about you personally but it's like
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it's like and you don't deserve an explanation from your parents for every little thing i do deserve
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i do deserve anything the world doesn't owe you shit the world owes me every single thing
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yes it does yes it does like the world the world owes you nothing but if you don't explain to your
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children certain situations then they can't feel comfortable coming to ask you things a lot of
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times you're better for not knowing certain situations i don't want to know what my parents
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are fighting about i don't want to know what my parents mental health issues are like a lot of
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times you're better for not knowing things to be honest right now i think you guys are so privileged
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your parents did you a favor by bringing you into this country right yeah my mom did thank you mom
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yeah but you think you're dead and nothing to play in that role well you had to you had to do it
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yeah he owed my mom that at least how did he owe you that's the least he owed my mother how did he owe
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your mom that he didn't i'm not gonna explain my dad's situation because you guys are trying to make me
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expose my father i'm not gonna do that okay jenna sami but he owed my mom that
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he owned my mom he owed my mom you're coming and saying oh zimbabwean culture is trash when your
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parent worked hard in a country that right now is suffering from a law and bro no they don't
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really owe you that when he had me i didn't choose for him to have me now so he has a responsibility
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he's obligated to look after me i'm a child yeah he has a responsibility to look after you but you
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don't have a responsibility to go and ask for questions from him i can ask my father whatever
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i want and he should answer me just like my sons can ask me questions and i'll answer them
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no that's a western mentality no it's not a western mentality that's the reason why the
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zim culture don't work you like i was just i'll just say how does how does zim culture not work
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it doesn't work like i was saying okay what what what outcome what outcome so so i'm guessing zim is
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more traditional right very okay okay so so it's like the woman submits to the her husband right
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whether he's cheating on you or not whether he's abusing or not you stay women women are happier in
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traditional outcomes every stat will tell you this women have more stds they're more likely to be
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depressed they're more likely to be on antidepressants they're more likely to have had an abortion
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in a more 50 50 modern society in traditional countries operate in traditional outcomes the
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women are happier they're not happy they're miserable they're better no they're absolutely
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they're faking it trust me you don't think if it's from the zim side of women in modern culture women
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are in antidepressants women are depressed more than ever in human history but if it's traditional
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right no matter whatever culture it is you you can't get out even if you want to get out you
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can't get out because you're gonna think oh what about my family what would the culture say yeah and
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that's and that's better because that was when mothers put their kids before them it wasn't a me
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me me culture it's not about my happiness about your kids your kids more likely to go to prison
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they're more likely to be in a mental institution they're more likely to drop out of school you're
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putting your kid at every statistical disadvantage you can possibly put them at by leaving every
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statistical disadvantage but modern women don't care because they care about their feelings and not
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the kids but sometimes it's better to leave how who is it better for you or the kids so it might be
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better for you but if you're in a toxic environment if you're in a toxic relationship wrong if in a
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toxic relationship it's better to leave for both for your children's sake and for your but why are
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you arguing why is the other person arguing with you women it's it's your argument it's not always us
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let's be realistic like you don't have to argue back that's a choice you don't have to argue back
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if there's abuse in you you have to sit there and take it define a nice define abuse abuse can be
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mentally physically define you need you to define it because a lot of times women women we throw
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around these buzzwords that don't mean anything anymore that guy is physically assaulting you
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right it's best to say in that marriage because it's no no physical assault is a very minority of
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cases it's a minority so that's the exception it's not the rule please give me another example outside of
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assault there's so many okay emotional abuse what is it emotional abuse is where they're
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oh god yeah like they're trying to control you you can't do this you can't do that you can't wear this
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you can't wear that that's my problem right there you know when you're coming from zim culture they
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give you advice and you guys think advice is control they give you guys i'm saying they come
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to give you advice they've been through situations right you have pretty much made into the uk they
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they left a country where the amount of people that are living in the country are like a small minority
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right and it's a blessing to actually be able to leave that country because of the situation that's
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going on in that country so they have all this life advice these are people that used to learn
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in difficult circumstances right that some of them actually in zim culture went to war as well
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so they have all that life experience they've had all these things that guidance pretty much
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they want to give for you for your life but you guys feel like it's control because you want to be
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so liberal you don't want to listen to your parents and that's where i have a disagreement with
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you guys because you want western culture because it gives you that liberalism that i can just do
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whatever i want by doing whatever you want you have no responsibility and you have no one to account
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to like right now you don't want to be accountable to anybody so your parents can tell you to do
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something you feel like they're controlling you but they can't we're grown you you were 17 when you
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left the house you can advise me when i left when i got for an hour you have to be clear with that
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you have to be realistic with that you can't just be like when you left if i picked my i would have had
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all my stuff if i wanted to leave yeah where would i be going as well i was the one sleeping on the
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bars they were but you challenged the authority in the house if you tried when he marched to me
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kicking me out and i said what i said i said what i said after when he was throwing my seat out of the
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house already you had to say something to be disrespectful to be kicked out i got kicked off
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because i didn't move at the house at a certain time because of her and she's got an issue with me
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hovering at a certain time because i got school anyway she completed that whole situation for no reason
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she got mad as usual so you got kicked out because you're not doing the chores i don't know what she
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said basically because i didn't do a chore at a certain time she'll say okay in the mornings you
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have to do the chore around eight o'clock if you're in someone's house you have to listen to their rules
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but if the person's changing the times just because they want to get you in trouble you guys would never
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understand it because you're not in the situation anyway so i don't i don't expect you to understand it
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and it's fine i look at step step parents of um that my parents had divorced my mom and
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dad did divorce my culture is indian back from india like my dad is from india my mom was born here
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whatever right but um i was my correct story is crazy as well like hers but that's due to uh my mom's
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boyfriend abusing me as well right and that shows why women shouldn't leave because it puts their kid at
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risk but you're proving my point no she's not she's gonna do my thing i'm like as many of you know i was
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