JustPearlyThings - August 25, 2023


Why Modern Women Are Single And Lonely


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14 minutes

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198.13371

Word count

2,916

Sentence count

292

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Misogyny

36

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Hate speech

25

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In this episode, we talk about the importance of a man in your life and how a man can make you happy. We also talk about why a woman should choose to be single and why a man should stay single.

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00:00:00.000 Go ahead. I actually think that most women don't really know what happy is. 1.00
00:00:06.080 But I actually read a statistic that showed that women are the happiest when they're given a blowjob. 1.00
00:00:13.380 What?
00:00:16.840 Oh, really?
00:00:18.200 Pearl, may I end up?
00:00:19.520 No, but it's actually real.
00:00:21.320 Go ahead.
00:00:24.540 Predominantly, I think we have middle-aged women here, all maybe married, divorced. 1.00
00:00:30.620 We're in that situation where I think most of us are divorced at the moment.
00:00:35.500 And I think we're kidding ourselves when we're saying we're going to be happy without a man and that we don't need to get married.
00:00:41.560 We need a man.
00:00:43.320 I don't think no one is saying that here.
00:00:45.860 What was the question?
00:00:46.960 Can women be happy for a lifetime single? 1.00
00:00:51.460 No, they cannot.
00:00:52.780 Most, I think, have said yes, they can.
00:00:55.940 No, they cannot.
00:00:56.740 Because when they're single, they're still looking.
00:00:58.740 They're on dating websites.
00:01:00.800 And, you know, you're like, you said you were 43 and you're happy and you're single and you're in the world because you're beautiful.
00:01:09.300 You're still beautiful.
00:01:10.020 But you will age, you will get older, comes health and, you know, you will need a partner.
00:01:15.940 But who guaranteed it that partner will be there when I needed him, you know, in terms of that happiness?
00:01:24.400 Because I feel like one man cannot provide you with everything.
00:01:28.760 If you have a community of people, if you have lots of amazing relationships.
00:01:33.120 It's commitment.
00:01:33.820 Commitment is man.
00:01:34.620 I'm not saying, see, there are other needs that a man can fulfill for a woman.
00:01:42.100 Yes, they are there.
00:01:42.920 But happiness is not the grounding for, oh, I need to have a man because he's going to make me happy.
00:01:52.080 You have to make yourself happy.
00:01:53.740 You have to learn to love yourself, make yourself happy.
00:01:56.520 Yeah.
00:01:56.780 But there are other needs, obviously.
00:01:58.720 God made a man because you cannot fulfill that gap.
00:02:01.960 See, that's what I believe.
00:02:03.780 I believe you will need a man eventually.
00:02:05.480 I personally think my personal experience, after being in a marriage for 18 years, I always see men as like a security for me.
00:02:14.040 Coming from an Asian background, it's always just like he's my, he's my back.
00:02:20.040 Like, so other men can't approach me.
00:02:22.580 I feel safe.
00:02:23.720 I feel protected.
00:02:25.340 That's something I can say, yes, a man can provide for life.
00:02:29.320 And when I become single, I'm exposed to all these men because I'm single now.
00:02:33.560 So I've learned, I've learned for men to approach me and I've done so much self-work and growth.
00:02:39.120 If a man approaches me, I'm like, no, I'm not available.
00:02:42.140 I'm in a relationship.
00:02:43.320 It's you.
00:02:44.100 You need to work on your self-love and you need to, your self-control.
00:02:48.460 So if somebody comes to you and wants you, no, I'm in a relationship.
00:02:51.900 Absolutely.
00:02:52.640 You can say that.
00:02:53.620 But what I'm saying is once you're married, you just have that.
00:02:57.340 Okay, that's my protection there.
00:02:58.760 That's my security.
00:02:59.700 Maybe it's the way I've been raised as well.
00:03:02.140 Like, you know, so for me, that urge of, okay, having that protection or leaning on someone
00:03:07.060 when you're finding, like, as a single mom, challenges around kids and stuff, who can
00:03:11.820 I lean on or, you know, I just, you know, I wonder, cause like, then who, if you don't
00:03:17.860 get married, who takes care of you? 1.00
00:03:20.340 Your community.
00:03:20.980 You can take care of yourself.
00:03:22.940 We are mature people.
00:03:24.340 Why we are.
00:03:25.300 Well, no, but I'm saying at some point you're going to have health.
00:03:27.460 Everyone does.
00:03:28.420 But can I just say something?
00:03:30.080 Like, there's a difference between a woman choosing to be single, because I feel that
00:03:37.140 It's always a choice for women. 1.00
00:03:39.600 It is always a choice.
00:03:40.460 For men as well.
00:03:41.160 It's a choice for men as well.
00:03:42.320 No, it's not.
00:03:42.960 Not when one out of three men are sexless.
00:03:48.300 It's not a choice.
00:03:49.240 It's not when, like, there's a whole group of men that have no choice because no women 0.91
00:03:54.360 want them.
00:03:55.000 Most men didn't even reproduce historically. 0.91
00:03:56.720 Only 40% of men reproduced.
00:03:59.540 But how does that take away from the-
00:04:02.320 Because, because again, because women, what, all right, now in modern times, what starts 1.00
00:04:06.740 relationships?
00:04:08.200 Sex, right?
00:04:08.980 Women are in control of sex. 1.00
00:04:10.440 There's always someone willing to sleep with a woman. 1.00
00:04:13.000 There's always someone willing to date a woman. 0.85
00:04:15.340 That is true.
00:04:15.880 Always.
00:04:16.160 There's not always someone willing to date a man, right?
00:04:19.600 That may be true.
00:04:20.340 So, therefore, women always have choice. 1.00
00:04:22.260 Men do not. 0.98
00:04:23.000 Okay.
00:04:23.360 Let me tell you why that is true and also not true.
00:04:26.800 Okay.
00:04:27.180 Because in the beginning, yes, you're right.
00:04:29.220 A woman does have control of the sex part in terms of, like, introducing sex. 1.00
00:04:34.880 But once the sex relationship is established, the power dynamics completely change.
00:04:39.340 You're right.
00:04:39.780 You're right.
00:04:40.340 You're right.
00:04:40.960 But my point is, where does it start?
00:04:43.200 And you may be, some of you guys are a bit older.
00:04:45.660 But in modern times, in modern times, in most relationships, start with sex.
00:04:50.260 No.
00:04:50.760 If you, yes, they do.
00:04:51.900 I may, I'm not, maybe.
00:04:52.780 In Tinder, dating apps are the number one way people are meeting under the age of 30.
00:04:58.220 Yeah.
00:04:58.560 Come on, you know.
00:04:59.360 Because we can't speak from a personal experience because we have to speak.
00:05:03.800 Right.
00:05:04.500 Right.
00:05:04.620 We can't speak from a general experience.
00:05:05.800 Yeah.
00:05:06.160 Yeah.
00:05:06.340 So, I understand that.
00:05:07.500 But we can't ignore the fact that the power dynamics do change with men in terms of they
00:05:12.360 take leadership of where the relationship will go.
00:05:15.220 Most women actually wait on a man to be, to define the relationship, whether, where we 1.00
00:05:21.900 are, where are we, are we.
00:05:23.320 But women, but we pick the type of men we date. 1.00
00:05:25.380 Right.
00:05:25.620 So, you either pick a marriage-minded guy or you don't.
00:05:28.700 It's true.
00:05:29.240 That's true as well.
00:05:30.120 That's very true.
00:05:31.100 But what I'm saying in terms of like, wait until you're 60.
00:05:33.880 You could, for example, I was, I was in a relationship for 13 years, was married, but
00:05:39.040 I got married quite young.
00:05:40.920 Well, some would say I'm young, 24 years old.
00:05:43.580 And then in my late 20s, I was my first partner from the time I was 16 years old.
00:05:48.500 So, I start actually dating, dating at the age of 28.
00:05:51.940 Right.
00:05:52.160 And now I'm in my mid-30s.
00:05:53.700 Now, I've only been, let's say, single roughly around six years.
00:05:58.960 So, now I'm now looking for a relationship because I love love.
00:06:02.380 I want to be in a relationship.
00:06:03.720 I want to be married again.
00:06:05.100 I love companionship.
00:06:06.260 I believe in the idea.
00:06:07.120 I believe in the idea.
00:06:08.120 But I can find a partner and we may be married for like 20 years.
00:06:13.880 So, let's say 45, 55.
00:06:16.180 I'm not saying I'm not putting that into the atmosphere.
00:06:17.880 I hope that is for life.
00:06:19.240 But let's say we may be married for 20 years and anything can happen.
00:06:23.520 It might be a loss.
00:06:25.080 People lose, you know, I lost my close friend, my best friend in January and her partner now
00:06:29.380 is a widow, for example.
00:06:30.800 And he's only in his, they're both in the mid-30s.
00:06:33.200 So, anything can happen.
00:06:34.240 It could be life.
00:06:35.640 If we all, we're not the same people as we are 10 years ago, one of the reasons.
00:06:39.740 I don't think that matters, though.
00:06:41.520 I don't think it matters if you're the same people.
00:06:42.860 I think it matters because you know why?
00:06:43.960 Because I say, oh, 100% it matters.
00:06:45.900 I'm going to go to that point.
00:06:46.860 But what I'm trying to say is, so now you're 55, for whatever reason now, the separation,
00:06:52.420 you know, is done.
00:06:54.940 I don't think that you take away your experience that you've had for the past 20 years.
00:07:00.220 So, you've had a good 20 years of experience.
00:07:02.160 Just like many people, like our grandparents, a lot of them lose their partners.
00:07:06.020 But they still are, you know, yeah, they become lonely.
00:07:11.020 But sometimes it's not all about choices.
00:07:12.860 Sometimes things in life happen as humans.
00:07:15.300 We're human individually.
00:07:16.560 No, but I would say the majority of single women, it's a choice. 1.00
00:07:20.060 I mean, we could talk about being a widow.
00:07:22.120 That's an exception.
00:07:22.820 But the rule is it's a choice.
00:07:24.140 Women leave relationships. 1.00
00:07:25.280 Men don't. 0.98
00:07:25.560 Oh, I do.
00:07:26.260 There's context behind that.
00:07:27.640 No one leaves.
00:07:28.360 I think women... 1.00
00:07:28.840 Well, women will always make up a reason. 1.00
00:07:30.600 There's always some reason.
00:07:31.540 Like, grow apart.
00:07:32.640 Marriage isn't about growing apart.
00:07:34.040 It's not about liking your partner.
00:07:35.340 It's about duty.
00:07:36.520 A hundred percent.
00:07:37.360 So, when the duties...
00:07:38.600 Exactly.
00:07:38.980 So, both men...
00:07:39.900 So, I have a role in my marriage.
00:07:42.380 And the man has a role in his marriage.
00:07:44.060 So, what if the man is not fulfilling those marriages?
00:07:46.520 And remember...
00:07:47.100 Well, but then it's like, it's so hypocritical.
00:07:49.320 Because it's like, well, women are supposed to be virgins on their wedding night. 0.98
00:07:52.060 Most women are virgins on their wedding night. 1.00
00:07:53.720 So, we're not perfect either.
00:07:55.300 But yet, we expect perfection from our husbands.
00:07:57.440 No, there's no perfection.
00:07:58.660 No one's expecting perfection.
00:08:00.200 I literally just asked.
00:08:01.480 There are duties.
00:08:02.760 I'm not perfect either, is he.
00:08:04.420 No one's talking about perfections here.
00:08:06.400 We're talking about standard expectations within a marriage.
00:08:10.140 So, if that man, for example...
00:08:11.800 Because you said people change...
00:08:15.300 People...
00:08:15.640 I mean, the matter of changing doesn't exist.
00:08:18.800 For someone I got together...
00:08:19.760 No, I didn't say it doesn't exist.
00:08:20.180 I mean, it doesn't exist, but it doesn't...
00:08:21.440 I said...
00:08:22.040 I implied it was a silly reason for divorce.
00:08:24.640 And the reason why I say that...
00:08:26.220 For example, I met my partner at 16 years old, right, in college.
00:08:29.500 Yes.
00:08:29.680 Right?
00:08:30.360 When you meet someone at 16, we're both kids, what you're looking for a partner when you're
00:08:35.240 16, it's completely different when you become an adult, you know, who now knows, in a way,
00:08:41.840 what they want because they come into their own adulthood, you know, who they are as a person.
00:08:46.420 So, in that time, as we're growing up, when we became adults, we got to a point where we both knew, in a way,
00:08:54.180 because I think someone mentioned about compatibility, right?
00:08:57.440 There is more to marriage and relationships than love.
00:09:00.980 There's other things that constitutes marriage.
00:09:03.120 We both didn't understand what constituted marriage, maybe because of our age at the time.
00:09:07.780 We didn't have...
00:09:08.540 We weren't equipped with the right mindset when we got into the situation because it's not just,
00:09:12.880 oh, I love you, let's get married.
00:09:14.220 So, what does that mean, though?
00:09:15.560 I need a specific example.
00:09:16.480 So, what I'm saying to you is, if two people that are not compatible end up in the marriage,
00:09:22.180 there are things that are going to happen eventually that's going to bring up issues,
00:09:25.620 either resentment towards each other because one person is expecting that person to mirror
00:09:29.380 the other person, and that goes vice versa between male and women. 0.98
00:09:32.080 Can I have a specific example of what this means?
00:09:35.060 Because this is very broad, so I need to...
00:09:37.360 Okay.
00:09:37.520 So, for example, you're in a relationship, and let's say you start earning,
00:09:43.980 more than your partner, because we're growing slightly more than your partner.
00:09:48.060 You both grow halves on each other, but for some reason, that man feels less than a man
00:09:54.800 because he's earning less than you.
00:09:57.240 Now, this is nothing really that I can actually do because that's an individual thing for a person to do.
00:10:03.780 Well, I would ask why he feels that way.
00:10:05.480 Because a lot of times what women do is they throw it in the guy's face, 1.00
00:10:08.400 and they constantly bring it in.
00:10:09.540 No, no, no, no.
00:10:09.620 A lot of women do. 1.00
00:10:10.680 A lot of women do. 1.00
00:10:11.440 A lot of women do, but it might... 1.00
00:10:12.480 I'm not talking about you, though.
00:10:14.260 It's wrong, and it's unfair, and I think...
00:10:17.080 Yeah, but I'm not talking about...
00:10:18.740 A lot of women do, but I think sometimes as well, we have to be very balanced in terms of... 1.00
00:10:24.080 Sometimes we push this narrative that women, there's 100% toxic women that you're speaking of, 1.00
00:10:29.720 but we're not talking in this context.
00:10:31.460 So there are sometimes that men within themselves feel that they haven't found themselves,
00:10:36.600 which is, in a way, in our 20s, we're still finding ourselves.
00:10:39.300 I mean, they may feel inferior because they might be earning less.
00:10:42.620 I've never heard a guy talk about finding himself.
00:10:45.180 That's like a...
00:10:46.080 Oh, I've heard guys talk about maturing, but I've...
00:10:51.360 But that's maturing, it's development.
00:10:53.940 It's finding, part of development, it's finding yourself.
00:10:56.460 Typically, when men talk about finding themselves, it's because they've heard it a lot from women,
00:11:00.060 and they know that that is a language that works with women. 1.00
00:11:02.460 So most of the time, they're just lying to you because they want to get something from you.
00:11:05.780 Can I interject?
00:11:06.640 That's a language.
00:11:07.200 Can I interject?
00:11:08.280 When you're talking about they've heard it from women, sometimes it's not.
00:11:11.140 It could be various circumstances that come about that a man has to find himself.
00:11:16.520 It could be, yes, he's come out of a relationship.
00:11:18.280 It could be he's trying to find the right career path to go down.
00:11:21.080 It could be, it could be, it could be a religious, from a religious perspective,
00:11:25.360 he needs to look within himself to, to, you know, become this greater being.
00:11:28.740 It's not just, and we're putting a lot of things, oh, it's the woman, it's the woman. 0.99
00:11:31.960 A lot of women throw something in the mouth, it's not that. 1.00
00:11:33.560 So the reason we say it's the woman, because the data indicates that it is.
00:11:37.240 But that's the data.
00:11:38.480 The data has no context.
00:11:39.460 So the data, the data talks about who files for a divorce.
00:11:42.940 You can just look it up.
00:11:43.780 But there's no context.
00:11:44.900 There's no context to that.
00:11:46.720 What do you mean there's no context?
00:11:47.960 For example, what I'm saying to you is, you said statistics, statistics might be fact,
00:11:52.040 in the Western world, because that's what the stick, but I don't know.
00:11:54.240 Yeah, UK and US.
00:11:55.460 The UK and US.
00:11:56.840 Okay.
00:11:57.980 But there is no context as to the reasons why, because I'll tell you something, why I'm saying
00:12:03.100 this.
00:12:03.400 A woman will stick more in a relationship, a toxic relationship, an abusive relationship, 1.00
00:12:09.140 for many, many, many, many, many, many more years than a man would.
00:12:13.780 Women pick toxic relationships. 1.00
00:12:15.780 So do men.
00:12:16.160 They pick it.
00:12:16.940 Yes, they do.
00:12:17.540 Yes, they do.
00:12:18.440 So do men.
00:12:19.160 How do you get into a relationship with someone if you don't pick them?
00:12:22.960 Because people change.
00:12:24.380 People change.
00:12:25.160 This is an excuse I hear women use. 1.00
00:12:27.600 It's not an excuse.
00:12:27.820 Can I say something?
00:12:28.920 Hold on.
00:12:29.420 Can I finish my point?
00:12:31.020 No, no, no, because it's not your show.
00:12:32.020 This is an excuse that women use, this is an excuse that women use to justify picking 1.00
00:12:39.020 poorly.
00:12:39.900 So tell me about it.
00:12:40.600 90% of the time when women are in toxic relationships, it's because they didn't get their father's 1.00
00:12:45.240 advice, their brother's advice, or their friend's advice.
00:12:48.140 Half the time, everybody is warning them, telling them not to date them, and they do anything.
00:12:52.900 Are you the same person you was 10 years ago?
00:12:54.880 Am I the same person?
00:12:57.000 I would say I have very similar traits than I did 10 years ago.
00:13:00.340 And I just think, I don't think, I don't think, I don't think this stuff matters.
00:13:09.580 Like, I just think, because nobody, when you take vows, it's for better or for worse
00:13:13.480 and sickness and health, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not for when, for when we grow
00:13:17.360 apart, no.
00:13:18.360 Can I say something, a man, I'm not a man, obviously, but I think a man will leave if
00:13:24.220 he's not, if he's not 100% there and he doesn't want to be with you, he will leave.
00:13:28.780 He will cheat, he will disrespect you, he will not call you, he will not return those
00:13:32.440 messages, he's left, he's not interested.
00:13:35.120 You're holding on to something, you're almost like begging to be with somebody, you're trying
00:13:39.700 to make this work.
00:13:40.620 A woman will do that, but a man has already left. 1.00
00:13:43.520 But the men don't leave the majority of the time.
00:13:46.260 No, they will stay, but they're cheating, when they're cheating, when they're speaking
00:13:50.200 to somebody else, I want to add another dynamic.
00:13:52.520 But again, it's only, it's only a small percentage of men that can cheat.
00:13:56.380 It's a very small percentage of men that actually can cheat.
00:13:59.040 Can I add dynamic to this?
00:14:01.040 I want to know where these facts are coming from, to be honest.
00:14:06.040 It also takes courage, and good that you're saying that a lot of women are the one who
00:14:12.040 leaves.
00:14:13.040 It takes courage to leave a relationship.
00:14:16.040 No, I disagree.
00:14:17.040 It does.
00:14:18.040 It does.
00:14:19.040 Especially in a society that sees.
00:14:21.040 Do you know why?
00:14:22.040 It takes courage to do the easy thing.
00:14:24.040 What's the easy thing?
00:14:25.040 To leave?
00:14:26.040 The easy thing is to leave.
00:14:27.040 Why?
00:14:28.040 Why is that easy?
00:14:29.040 It's hard.
00:14:30.040 No, explain.
00:14:31.040 Why is it easy?
00:14:32.040 It's not easy.
00:14:33.040 It is easy to quit things.
00:14:34.040 It's hard.
00:14:35.040 Have you ever been married?
00:14:36.040 It's hard to stick it out.
00:14:37.040 Have you been married?
00:14:38.040 Oh my God.
00:14:39.040 It's hard.
00:14:40.040 It's hard.
00:14:41.040 No, no, no, no.
00:14:42.040 Let her answer the question.