Women Are All About Their Happiness
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Summary
Professional footballer Ashraf Hakime s wife files for divorce and demands half of his property. She was shocked to find out that her husband owns no assets at all. What does this mean for the future of the couple and their future children?
Transcript
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Just to the point of this guy, the footballer, and what he did,
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100% man, this has got to be, this has got to be the blueprint.
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This has got to be the blueprint for every single man now,
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Like I don't necessarily believe that divorce is an inherently bad thing.
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And I do think it's for the greater good sometimes.
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I mean, if you're not, I mean, if you're not happy,
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if you're not being respected, I just feel like.
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Don't you think, don't you think happiness comes and goes?
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So should the marriage vow switch to for richer, for poorer, until I'm happy?
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In sickness and in health, and if I'm not happy.
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Not necessarily, but I just, I don't understand why you guys truly believe
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that you should stay in a relationship that's causing your own happiness.
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Because I think once you have kids, it's not about you anymore.
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So a lot of times, like women make choices for themselves and for their happiness,
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but there's effects in society that happen because of the choice they made.
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Where it's like, yeah, okay, you might be happy, but how is your child going to feel
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Today, we are talking about a couple that is in the news.
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There's a famous soccer player who recently was divorced.
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And his, you know, soon ex-wife had a very big surprise in the divorce.
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Professional footballer Ashraf Akime's wife filed for divorce and demanded half of his property.
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We've heard this story before, but this one's a little bit different.
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She was informed by the court that her millionaire husband owns nothing.
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I'm sure the whole courtroom was shocked to find out that her plan to get half of everything he owns
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Well, because all his property is registered under his mother's name.
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This is definitely some bitter coffee for that ex-wife, or soon-to-be ex-wife.
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We're drinking some coffee with a little bit of creamer in it today.
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But there's more to the story than just this trending headline.
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We're going to look at what exactly might be going on in the background, what led to this situation, possibly,
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and also what the people have to say about everything that's going on.
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So, for those of you who may not know, Ashraf Hakime is a professional footballer
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who plays for League One Club Paris Saint-Germain and Morocco National Team.
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What a lot of people probably don't know, and I personally didn't know,
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because I just don't follow soccer that closely, about this story,
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is that on March 3rd, Ashraf had been indicted by Paris police over allegations of grape.
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The man was recently metooed and placed under judicial supervision on March 3rd last month.
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Now, three weeks later, on March 27th, his wife filed for divorce,
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or at least she went online to announce that she was divorcing and leaving her husband,
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Now, two weeks later, after that, everything took a shocking turn when this news was released in court.
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It was found that the 24-year-old famous soccer player had no assets under his name.
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She took him to court so that she could take away his assets, right?
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It was reported that all his properties, jewelry, and cars were all under his mom's name.
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Real quick, shout-out to that mom, man, who came through for her son,
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because I have never heard of this shit before in my life.
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Usually, especially as young as this professional athlete is,
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Majority of them do, and that's because they don't take the initiative to protect their wealth,
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understand money, and how to grow wealth outside of the sport,
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but just protecting your wealth after a divorce is usually very difficult for a lot of these athletes to do.
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Not only were the properties, jewelry, and cars under his mom's name,
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but she also received 80% of his $15.7 million wage.
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Therefore, it meant that Ashraf had no assets to split with his wife.
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From what I know and where it stands, now she gets nothing.
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So they do have two children, two sons in specific,
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and a lot of people are speculating that the reason for her initiating that divorce
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was based on him inviting some chick over while his wife and kids were off on vacation,
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and then that chick who came over to his place claiming that he forced himself on her.
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All right, curious to know what you guys think of that.
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As always, we're going to check out some of these comments,
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This is an obvious win, of course, for this man as far as his assets go.
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Another comment here, none other than Francis Ngannou,
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Another person here, a woman chimed in and says,
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We have a woman here who doesn't like what's going on.
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She goes on to say, because maybe the reason for the divorce is due to his inability to make moves without his mom.
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Do you guys think that's the reason for the divorce?
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I mean, with the data we know now, and these women initiating divorces over anything,
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I think she probably thought of a reason, found it, and decided it was worth initiating for that divorce in her eyes.
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But let's see what the people have to say, because people responded back to that chick.
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And another commenter who added, obviously, the mother is the only one that won't leave him and take half of his money.
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Another person here says, best comment in response to that guy I have seen on internet.
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Another man here says, how is that strange in response to that chick?
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Especially in a world we live in, and after seeing so many cases, I'll say that was very smart for him.
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Why should your wife be automatically eligible to get half your shit just because you don't want to be with him no more?
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This turned into a threat, and a lot of people chimed in.
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This next person said, she probably paid someone to accuse of grape.
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So she can file a divorce and get half of his money.
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I think those are far out speculations, but hey, who knows?
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Another person here says, so for that, she deserves to split half of the man's wealth.
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And finally, another comment here to end the thread says, men.
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I could see you during the reaction on the edge of your seat.
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I think he's a smart guy because especially with marriages and when you have a lot of money, people will do anything to get a piece of your pie.
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And I'm coming from a place where I've had people take a piece of my pie.
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Like I have been scammed over 10 grand of my money.
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It was from a very, I'm not going to say the name of the company, but basically...
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No, because I don't want to get sued and then they take more money off of me.
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So this company promised my company to advertise, market and promote my business.
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And the reason why they didn't follow with all the agreements and the proposal fee at the end of my performance at Wembley Arena last year in August, they go, the reason why we didn't do all those things is because you're not Pakistani.
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I did a free performance in front of 12,500 people and 10 grand just went woof.
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So when it comes to that, I think he's very smart for giving his assets to his mom so people don't take it because anyone will take that opportunity just to take something from me.
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I mean, I feel like I do think it was a smart move.
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I think, like, it was obviously very calculated.
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However, I don't necessarily think that when you're divorcing someone, I don't think it's scamming to, like, take some of their money or whatever when you divorce someone.
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Do you think you're entitled to a man's money in divorce that he made?
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But I think, for example, in some situations where you might have given up your career to raise children or whatever, like, you decided to put the money that you're making on hold to put effort into growing.
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It says three out of four mothers in the UK work.
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But also it's her choice to have those children with him.
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And those children surely are going to still be looked after by their father.
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So, like, financially, I'm sure his mother's not going to be like, bye.
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Couldn't you argue it's an even trade because she gets time with the kids that he doesn't get?
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You don't think time with your kids is more valuable than?
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I feel as though if a father wants to have time with his children, I feel like, you know, legally he has the right to fight to have more time with his children.
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No, but I was saying during the marriage, you don't think that's an equal exchange?
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So she gets time with the children and she has to put her career on hold.
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But he he gets to do the career thing when he doesn't get the time with his kids.
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That's not me saying that necessarily working on your career is better than spending time with your children.
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But I feel as though when if you guys are to split up or have a divorce, it does put you at an.
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Advantage if you have spent time furthering your career and.
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So you just think that women should put up with anything and stay in a relationship there?
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Yeah, I think I think otherwise stay in a relationship.
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Isn't like what happened to for better, for worse, for sickness and health for richer or for poorer?
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Why are we assuming that the kids are going to go to her?
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No, but I'm saying the way how the direction of the conversation is going.
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It's like we know that the kids are going to her.
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When we're talking about after when he's leaving, after they've left.
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This lady was talking about whilst they're in the relationship still.
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I was saying, is it a fair exchange that she gets to stay at home and the value that she
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gets from that and him working, they're still married.
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And then after we talked about leaving and where the children should go.
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No, I said that when they, when they separate, he has an advantage.
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But couldn't she, couldn't she have an advantage to getting remarried and being a stay-at-home
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Like if you were a stay-at-home wife, then you'd have stay-at-home wife skills.
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So wouldn't she have an advantage if you wanted to get remarried?
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You've got children now, though, so you automatically devalue.
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Like, how do you know the kids are going to go to her?
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Let me, let me, let me try and nuance my point.
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If she has no kids because the kids are with him, then there's no responsibility for her.
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She's pushed out two children, so she's still automatically in the eyes of a man when he's
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No, because I'm looking at, I have to pay for the kids.
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I think she's saying that the mom is less valuable when she has kids.
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That's literally, like, am I talking, like, Marshall or something?
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I'm saying, literally, the reason why it's a problem if a woman has kids is because I
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But if the kids are with the man, then I don't have to look after them.
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There'll still be moments where they come over and it's like a...
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Yeah, but that's not why men are, like, saying to stay away from women with kids.
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It's because I'm going to have to look after the kids.
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So if I send my children to my son's dad, am I then more valuable?
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If I send my son to his dad, am I now, like, high market?
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If the dad had primary custody, you'd only have the kids, what, three to six days a month?
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Like, if the father's willing to do, like, a big portion of it, why wouldn't it be 50%?
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Also, do you think, like, society values women that don't look after their children?
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Because, I mean, you guys are saying that a woman's higher value if the children...
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You guys are saying that a woman's higher value if her children are with their dad or not with them primarily.
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So, like, do you guys think that society respects women who don't look after their children?
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I mean, I think in some ways a guy might prefer to meet a woman who's less encumbered with children, you know,
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because some guys do have, you know, an issue with she's got three kids.
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He's like, do I want to take that on if they're not around?
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Potentially, you might say, well, maybe that's going to be more of an attractive proposition.
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On the other hand, if the other way of looking at it is, well, you know, she couldn't look after her kids.
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So, if he's looking for somebody to produce more kids with, then maybe she's not such a good bet.
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But just to the point of this guy, the footballer, and what he did, did he do the right thing?
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This has got to be the blue bridge for every single man now for the rest of eternity.
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Wasn't he significantly younger than her as well?
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I also read that she now on paper is more wealthy than him.
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So, he is entitled to 50% of hers in the divorce.
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So, he's actually entitled to some of her money.
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Because it's not that she's more appealing because the kids are with the father.
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It's necessarily my resources are less wasted, I want to say.
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Because, okay, say for example, I get connected to the kids.
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She could leave and take her kids because they're not my kids.
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But I've invested my time, my money into the kids that we're looking after.
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If the kids are not dead, then I don't need to invest no time into them.
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So, like, I don't see how I'm losing by being with her.
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I'm just saying it's less money coming out of my pocket.
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But obviously, it depends on your relationship with your mom.
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It could be very, like, controlling if your money's...
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You have to ask to do things, you know what I mean?
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The relationship's got to be on a certain level.
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Something is so sus about that chick going to his house.
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I don't think so, necessarily, because I don't think it's, like, outlandish to...
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But that happens all the time to footballers, isn't it?
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Well, and the problem is in family court, you don't need evidence to accuse a guy of that.
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So, yeah, it's based on a balance of probabilities.
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So, essentially, like, girls can accuse men of assault in family court, and there's no consequence for it.
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And they can lose the kids, like, based on this.
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And they don't even get a judge, a jury, a trial.
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Like, I don't necessarily believe that divorce is an inherently bad thing.
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And I do think it's for the greater good sometimes.
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I mean, if you're not happy, if you're not being respected, I just feel like...
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To an extent, of course, happiness comes and goes.
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But if you're in a relationship, and that relationship is causing you unhappiness for the majority of time that you've been in it, then what's the point in it?
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Yeah, that's why you can choose to be in the relationship or not.
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If the relationship's not making you happy, you choose...
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Do you go to a relationship to make you happy, or should you look for happiness within?
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I believe you can be happy in yourself and at the same time not happy in the relationship that you're in.
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So should the marriage vows switch to for richer, for poorer, until I'm happy?
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And sickness and in health, and if I'm not happy.
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I don't understand why you guys truly believe that you should stay in a relationship that's causing you unhappiness.
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Because I think once you have kids, it's not about you anymore.
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And once you start a family unit, it's not about you.
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He's been in a homeless shelter for 40 years working with the people.
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And I asked him, what's the number one cause of homelessness?
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So a lot of times, like, women make choices for themselves and for their happiness.
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But there's effects in society that happen because of the choice they made.
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Where it's like, yeah, okay, you might be happy.
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But how is your child going to feel when he gets to see his dad six days a month?
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Yeah, but how does the child feel when they're stuck in a home with two parents that are arguing non-stop, constantly, all day?
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I don't think necessarily that staying in a relationship just to make the kids happy is the best decision for the kids all the time.
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Wouldn't a better solution be figure out how to get along with your husband?
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As long as you co-parent perfectly, I think it could work.
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I know it can work because that's exactly what I do.
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But wouldn't it be better to do it in the same house?
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If it could have worked, then the ideal would be we all live happily ever.
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So what couldn't work with your, you said you did that.
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I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with him.
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And so before the relationship, you never caught him cheating.
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And when I fell pregnant with my son, it wasn't like we didn't plan to have.
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In my mind, naively, I thought the fact that he had proposed and we were having a baby, that was him.
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So I don't want to go into details because obviously it's his business as well as mine.
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And I felt sorry for her because she didn't know that we were still together.
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And so, but I don't, we were both really young.
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Like when I look back, I was 19, he was 21 when we met.
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So it wasn't like we were around each other all the time.
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So the dynamic was very different than, I guess, people that are living in the same house every day.
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Well, what does life look like after 55 if you're by yourself?
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I'm not going to be by myself by the time I'm 55.
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A lot of times, like we think we can, like we do better.
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Would that decision still be the right one in hindsight?
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Well, there's lots of things out there that I can do to be of service to as many places and spaces that I can serve without it being, oh, I feel like I've given up my life fully because I've got an amazing son.
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We co-parent amazingly and so it was a choice that I made.
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I mean, in hindsight, maybe when I get to 55, but I'm not there at the moment in this present time.
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Do you think you'd have enough money to save for like retirement at that age?
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Because I think you need like, what do they say, 1.5 million to retire?
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My gran was working right up until she had her own little shop.
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Because like the way you're describing it, you were like, he was 21, you were 19 when you guys got married.
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Because like, I think a point Pearl often makes is that if you look at the marriage vows, what are the marriage vows?
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We would have just been stuck with each other, I guess.
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I guess it was easier because we hadn't got married yet.
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But I think because when I had my son, I had only just had him when I found out.
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And I was like, I just was like, I'm not doing this anymore.
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I'm not going to have this, some woman calling me again next year, crying down the phone.
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Because people get married kind of, well, actually they don't even get married that young anymore.
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And even if they did, also you could argue, but they still sign up for those vows.
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Well, it's mad to me because it's like how quickly girls are prepared to have a child without having marriage and are willing to leave a relationship with a child.
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But you would stay with a relationship if you're married.
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I was already a single mum, so I didn't, I had my daughter.
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So it wasn't a scary prospect for me because I was already a single mother from the age of 17.
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Like, so the relationship you're in, he's not the baby father?
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It's like one child, another child, two fathers.
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That would be a really good episode for EastEnders.
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Honestly, I'm like thinking that would be sick.
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Like I do find a lot of people are like willing to leave like relationships that's got kids in them.
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But you don't have to spend the, it's 180,000 for a child.
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I was going to say, what kind of marriage is that?
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But the issue is, why do people, if they've made the step of actually having a child together, and then they just decide, oh, actually, I'm not that happy, whatever.
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I mean, okay, putting aside cases of like, you know, terrible abuse and that sort of thing.
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But in more normal circumstances where it's just like the spark's not there anymore, the vibe's like not kind of gone.
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Why is it then that people feel it's okay to separate, if that makes sense?
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And I speak as somebody, you know, I was from a broken home.
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Yeah, it seems people can be quite gung-ho about this these days.
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When I was younger, I've spoken about this before, that my mum made it sound like I didn't need a man.
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So it was never in my mind that, oh, you are not going to be able to do it on your own.
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Like, there's moments where my son does something and I have to send videos and send pictures when we were together.
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Well, he's in the military, so he probably won't be there anyway.
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Is it because society encourages, like, feels over responsibility now?
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People are too concerned about how they're feeling rather than the logical reasons for doing things.
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It's like you can say what you want about how happy you are and how happy the child is if the parents are in separate homes.
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But factually, children who come from two-parent homes do better off in life.
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Factually, children who come from single homes are more likely to be homeless.
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So I just think that this whole, I don't know, the way the world is right now, everything's focused on how people feel.
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And the point is, is that feelings are temporary.
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But the actions that you do in life, that does last forever.
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And there's a domino effect to everything you do.
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So I think it's just all about sacrifice and how much you're willing to sacrifice.
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And I don't think people these days are willing to sacrifice a lot.
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I think also we need to recognize that not everybody is born super logical.
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Not everybody is, like, it took me a long time to have this ability to logically break down in the moment how my feelings are going to have a reaction and action.
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Was, was your, did your parents not teach you to be logical?
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My mum's a feeler as well in terms of Myers-Briggs.
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So the reason, like the reason that you didn't have that was because it's, it seems like you didn't have a father in the home.
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And so it kind of goes back to what she was saying.
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It's like a generation of women that put their feelings before the family and who had to suffer for it, you.
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And then who had to suffer for it, your kids, because you weren't taught that.
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Yeah, that's what I was saying the other day, that it needs both because the men are, my son's dad, like, puts logic, just, I'm like, I just send Ethan to his dad.
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But sometimes I think people get into a relationship or people get married for codependency reasons, like they can't handle life by themselves.
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So they need to lean on someone or depend on someone.
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I think you should both be equally dependent so you can help each other.
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Because what if one day your husband, his finances aren't doing well, and obviously you're used to being dependent on him, how are you going to help him?
00:32:00.060
Women being equally dependent on their husbands.
00:32:05.800
The more women worked and were there more equal, did it have a good outcome?
00:32:17.280
So like the more women worked and there's two incomes, the less families there were.
00:32:22.520
The less women respect men and their place because it's like, I don't need you.
00:32:28.100
So when you say like, it's good, I'm asking, is it good?
00:32:34.720
Is a celebrity couple what we should base everyday relationships off of?
00:32:40.680
Well, what I'm saying is you should be independent and be able to take care and love yourself and know how to deal with yourself so you can help somebody else.
00:32:49.740
You can't love somebody else until you love yourself first.
00:32:52.720
Were you talking about financially codependent or emotionally then?
00:32:55.320
I think overall, emotionally, financially, mentally as well, that you should be whole yourself before getting into a relationship or getting married.
00:33:06.240
I think you should have the ability to, like, because obviously depending on what age you meet your partner, obviously you would have worked at some point, but then have that ability to, because when you have kids, as soon as you push them out, you're not going to be able to work.
00:33:20.380
But that's what I think is part of the problem.
00:33:23.060
Because literally, if you're there working and I'm there working, then there's two jobs.
00:33:26.900
The employer has no reason to give me a high wage because there's more people available for the roles.
00:33:33.300
So now that the price of everything has increased and everything is more expensive and I get less money, now you have to be, now I have to be codependent on my wife.
00:33:46.460
Whereas if you guys wasn't working, then the employer doesn't necessarily have to employ me.
00:33:52.940
But if he wants to employ me, he has to pay me a wage that could feed my family.
00:33:57.580
But say, if you're going through a hard patch, your wife should be able to help.
00:34:02.320
Friends, wife, girlfriend, whatever's going on, they should help you until you get back onto your feet.
00:34:09.460
When it comes to finances, my guy's got me, bro.
00:34:11.840
Like, I'm not going to ask a woman to help me with nothing, bro.
00:34:15.060
Yes, I'm not going to ask her to, listen, babe, your job is to worry about the household.
00:34:20.680
I'm not even going to let you know that we're having financial issues to that point.
00:34:24.100
Before we even get to that point, I'm trying to...
00:34:26.960
No, I'm going to be like, listen, this month might be a little hard,
00:34:30.700
but I'm going to try my best to literally sort it out.
00:34:34.320
As long as you communicate, because you can't keep your partner...
00:34:38.480
What, if the lights get switched off or the bailiffs at the door, you need to know at some point, right?
00:34:45.300
You just went to, like, the worst case scenario.
00:34:46.480
No, no, I mean, what I'm saying is communication is important.
00:34:51.560
Yeah, but I just think as women, like, sometimes we think we're...
00:34:53.800
And this is the lesson I had to learn, but I think that we think we're entitled to information,
00:34:57.680
that men are just trying to fix it and not have us worry about it.
00:35:01.840
I don't want you to think about it, too, because you're going to be stressed,
00:35:03.760
and your stress is going to stress me out, and I'm going to be less able to sort it out.
00:35:11.800
This time, it's just a little bit harder for me, just rubbing my back a little harder.
00:35:16.700
Just give me an extra little bit of loving and, like, you know?
00:35:18.940
But why would you want to be in a long-time relationship with someone
00:35:21.820
that you don't feel comfortable expressing your emotions to?
00:35:27.980
But if I know what I'm going to tell you is not going to be easy on you,
00:35:33.540
Why make my girlfriend go through, or my wife go through the stress that she doesn't...
00:35:40.180
It's like her coming to me with every issue she's got in the house.
00:35:43.780
Don't come to me with every issue in the house,
00:35:50.080
It's just that some things is not meant for you to worry about.
00:35:52.420
And it's how you create a sacred space, you know?
00:35:56.520
you don't want to be bringing all of this baggage with you.
00:35:58.620
And I think in order to make a marriage long and successful,
00:36:01.840
you don't need to know every little detail of what they're doing,
00:36:04.900
where they're going, how the finances are going.
00:36:08.440
You know, as a woman, you take the load of the household and the kids.
00:36:11.420
You know, you don't need to bother your husband with every single thing.
00:36:14.300
And vice versa, the husband doesn't need to come home
00:36:22.600
Like, it's all about creating a space where you're just...
00:36:27.380
And the fact that men have this ability where they will go out
00:36:30.680
and they will work and they will take the load of the finances,
00:36:33.360
if they're not telling you if they're a bit short one month,
00:36:42.580
if the dude is, like, coming out to you with every single little thing?
00:36:48.340
oh, like, oh, I'm 20 quid short and all of this.
00:37:00.780
My ex-boyfriend, my ex-boyfriend, my childhood sweetheart.
00:37:31.740
So obviously he paid me back in installments, okay?
00:37:35.860
How did that affect the dynamic of your relationship?
00:37:43.200
I think it's really important to have, like, a friendship.
00:38:00.800
Did you break up with him after he paid you back?
00:38:03.500
The reason why I broke up with him is because he called me another girl's name.
00:38:13.740
Wait, you break up with me not because I cheated, but because I called you someone else.
00:38:18.220
Oh, I know who that girl was because he spoke about that girl in the beginning of the relationship.
00:38:28.120
Because if it's a girl that I used to see, then it's quite easy that I might have mistaken you.
00:38:33.700
Because, I don't know, I just feel like in society we always jump to the worst case scenario instead of giving people the benefit of the doubt.
00:38:47.460
And then I broke up and, oh, I met him when I was 16.
00:38:52.200
And then I broke up with him and I was like 21, 22.
00:38:57.820
Because you said at the beginning of your relationship, was that when you were like 16?
00:39:11.600
But anyway, what I'm saying is in a relationship.
00:39:31.340
And it was because he was hanging out with her before he saw me.
00:39:37.600
Did you have it all out with him, though, afterwards?
00:39:39.360
I just asked him, but he's, like, getting a little bit defensive.
00:39:42.400
And I just said to him, like, listen, like, I'm not judging you.
00:39:57.260
But anyways, I just said to him, like, it's okay.
00:39:59.920
And then he was just like, oh, because I knew the girl that he was talking about because
00:40:06.260
they were friends during, like, their childhood.
00:40:09.680
And then they tried to date, but it didn't work because it turned out that she's a lesbian.
00:40:19.360
So he called you a lesbian's name and you still dumped him?
00:40:35.420
So I was like, okay, so why are you hiding the fact that you're hanging out with her if
00:40:45.300
So that's when I was just like, okay, I'm just going to give it time.
00:40:48.820
If you want to open up about something, you will open up when you have to.
00:40:56.760
And he showed me videos on his phone of them hanging out.
00:41:03.020
They're under a blanket together, eating Chinese food.
00:41:20.940
Is he trying to break up with you or something?
00:41:22.600
You started the story by saying you broke up with him because he called you a wrong name.
00:41:29.280
I gave him time because I was just like, it could be a slip up.
00:41:40.900
But ultimately, if she was a lesbian, would I get down to her anyway?
00:41:48.900
To be honest, I thought you were going to say that you said your name, like said that
00:41:51.280
girl's name while you were banging or something.
00:42:03.020
As a man or woman, are you allowed to like two people?
00:42:08.900
Like, if I'm going out with you, am I allowed to like someone else?
00:42:12.580
I mean, if you're in like a hardcore committed relationship and you're planning on getting
00:42:17.220
married and practicing exclusivity, then that's a bit of a disrespect.
00:42:22.860
But if you're in an open relationship and you're just dating.
00:42:24.980
It's a disrespect for me to like someone naturally.
00:42:34.460
So, if you walk past someone hot and you're like, God damn.
00:42:37.420
I thought you meant as in like physically do something.
00:42:39.640
You're seeing someone else whilst you're in a relationship.
00:42:44.640
Like, if he liked another girl's pictures on Instagram, I'll be like, chill.
00:43:08.260
You were mad at him for having a female friend.
00:43:12.460
It was like, there were more than a bit of a female friend.
00:43:19.860
Did you find out for sure that they hooked up or, like, did something?
00:43:31.520
I don't want to say the reason, because it's too graphic.
00:43:48.420
I just realised something, like, obviously with my body, like, anyways,
00:43:55.300
when I, but compared to how my health was in the relationship
00:43:58.160
to compared to how my health was outside the relationship,
00:44:00.800
if you know what I mean, like, I was clean outside the relationship,
00:44:07.140
So, he hadn't created a sacred space like what you were doing.
00:44:12.400
He was creating the sacred space with the lesbian under the blanket.
00:44:17.600
Goddamn, man, if you're going to, if you, anyway,
00:44:19.880
if you're going to do some strap-up, innit, like, you know what I'm saying?
00:44:26.500
Like, can I just be, like, can I just be frank, yeah?
00:44:28.460
If you're willing to have a kid outside of relationship, yeah,
00:44:32.440
like, isn't it, like, incumbent on me to not necessarily take you seriously?
00:44:37.760
Because you don't want to lock me down in terms of marriage, yeah?
00:44:40.480
So, that means you're willing to leave me at any point in time
00:44:54.760
Why would a girl be worried about who I'm with?
00:45:00.920
Like, if she knows that you like her in a sexual way.
00:45:07.620
If you've been together, like, five or six years, I think, like, you know,
00:45:11.640
I think he would be bothered about who I was with,
00:45:14.300
like, whether we were not in a committed relationship.
00:45:17.260
Yeah, I get that, but I can't judge you, though.
00:45:19.600
And I can't be, like, you know, like, I could think,
00:45:21.680
do you know what, my girl, there's no way I've been with my girl for six years
00:45:32.640
Do you not think there's anyone that doesn't cheat?
00:45:37.600
Like, do you not think there are people out here that exist that don't cheat?
00:45:42.040
What, are they wearing fairy wings or something?
00:45:53.120
So anytime, like, I'm just prepared for you, the cheaty to cheat.
00:45:59.520
if you, like, there's preparation and being, like, realistic.
00:46:03.060
Like, I wasn't blind to the fact of who my son's father was.
00:46:07.900
If I got back with him, I wouldn't be like, oh, no.
00:46:13.340
But I think his point is, like, cheating is something that can be worked through.
00:46:19.660
And so it's like, it kind of goes back to the me, me, me culture,
00:46:27.720
But so I think it's a little different outside of a relationship.
00:46:30.200
Like, when you're dating, you can pick what you want, what you don't want.
00:46:32.540
But, like, when it comes to having kids, it's like,
00:47:20.840
Wait, wait, he just said, wait, wait, let him answer.
00:47:24.480
So, wait, your answer is you're going to cheat back?
00:47:33.860
I think that female cheating is worse than male cheating.
00:47:45.600
However, I think female cheating is 100 times worse than male cheating.
00:47:49.080
Because they mean it, but it could still be worked for you.
00:47:55.020
If she's sober and she does it and there's explicit stuff going on, then it's harder to
00:48:00.040
take than if she was just doing a little missionary while she's drunk.
00:48:14.180
But to my point, though, it's like, I wouldn't, like, okay, why do we necessarily have the
00:48:20.580
same rules for modern day relationships, yeah, than traditional relationships?
00:48:25.720
Like, back in the day, yes, we expect everyone to stay together because we were going to get
00:48:32.860
So why do you still expect me to be, like, an old school guy, like, that's not, that's
00:48:41.520
I didn't expect, I don't expect anything, whatever somebody, like, I can't expect because
00:48:45.860
that's where people get let down and hurt because their expectations, my expectations
00:48:49.580
back then were so high of, like, what my feelings needed.
00:49:01.600
So, so is it, is it fair of you, like, would you want to have someone that's monogamous now?
00:49:13.840
Um, I believe that men can choose to be monogamous.
00:49:18.740
Do I believe that it's easy for a man to be monogamous?
00:49:28.580
Do you think it's fair to want that when you have kids from two different fathers?
00:49:37.340
Well, it depends on what he, you mean into monogamy?
00:49:41.900
I wouldn't be, he wants an open relationship because I've explored the idea of polyamory
00:49:49.180
I wouldn't write it out and I wouldn't rule it out and rule anything out.
00:49:52.200
It's a discussion that I would have to have depending on the relationship with that person.
00:49:56.080
Because I just, I just find it that like ladies, they're more of the kind of people
00:50:01.860
So it would be like, she'll be so quick to leave the relationship if she wanted to get
00:50:05.840
rid of me and start something fresh, which is completely okay.
00:50:11.580
I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to leave my girl because, you know what I'm trying
00:50:15.780
So it's different how we view sex in terms of genders.
00:50:20.840
But men get castigated regardless if they step outside, let's say.
00:50:27.640
I mean, I don't think you should do that in marriage, honestly, but if we're in this
00:50:30.840
relationship, quote unquote, yeah, we're together, then.
00:50:34.560
So you would rather, like, so you would say that you're more polygamous than.
00:50:52.600
So I am of the opinion that I would rather have wives with an S than have girls.
00:51:02.740
If I was to ask all four of you girls right now, is it okay for me to be single and sleep
00:51:07.040
with 20 girls if they're completely consentful, if I want to?
00:51:11.220
So why can't I do it with four wives that I want to look after?
00:51:19.220
Can I ask, why wouldn't you be satisfied with one wife?
00:51:25.340
Would you be satisfied with eating vanilla flavor ice cream all your life?
00:51:34.900
What if that woman that you was not vanilla, she was like some spicy chili taco?
00:51:47.340
I'm not going to like, okay, so I love water because it hydrates me.
00:52:00.960
But that don't mean I don't want to get a marinda sometimes.
00:52:03.260
Like, I'm not going to live on marinda, but do you know what I'm trying to say?
00:52:06.660
Yeah, I get what you're saying, but sometimes you can get that with the same chick.
00:52:24.620
Yeah, because it, so it doesn't really matter what you do.
00:52:29.000
That's what, when I asked my previous, why, like, this was like, years after we weren't together.
00:52:43.840
I mean, he's not the most, he's really, really logical.
00:52:47.620
So, I mean, he's not like outwardly emotional anyway.
00:52:55.640
So, obviously he wasn't emotionally monogamous to me because he did have another whole relationship.
00:53:00.140
But, I mean, like, for me to look at and be like, oh, he's really in love with that person.
00:53:09.160
Does it hurt being, finding out that someone, depending on someone else's vagina?
00:53:13.640
If I'm going on for the same example with the water, just because I like Marinda, that does not diminish water, the feelings I have for water in any way.
00:53:24.000
And so, for me to think like that, it took me many years to really put myself in the mind of a man.
00:53:31.680
And I was thinking from my heart, not from a man's penis.
00:53:36.600
The idea of having four wives might sound good, yeah.
00:53:43.380
Like, to maintain, like, say you've got a kid with all four women, you've got to maintain four different households.
00:53:55.040
Instead of putting your money in an ISA bank, you put it in a house and you get the wife.
00:54:00.640
It's like almost employing an employee when you have four wives.
00:54:09.660
I mean, to be fair, like, that's been done throughout all of history, always.
00:54:14.820
8,000 years ago, 17 women reproduced for every one man.
00:54:22.500
But it's kind of like, how am I supposed to look at the world and say, don't do what you've always done?
00:54:28.680
Maintaining four different relationships is a headache.
00:54:33.780
If I'm pissed off with Michelle, I'm not pissed off with Angela.
00:54:39.480
I'll just take a couple days out because I'm over here.
00:54:54.160
Amiri, what's the most amount of girls you've spoken to at one time?
00:54:57.380
Yo, listen, there was a point in time, listen, I was called Mr. Message Me.
00:55:15.900
When I say talking to, like actively going on dates, hooking up with, whatever.
00:55:21.200
Um, she's, I don't even know if she's going to say this well.
00:55:44.560
And were you dating them all, like actively dating or was it just like hookups?
00:55:51.340
Everyone had their different stages in the relationship.
00:55:55.900
Not all of them, but at some point, some of them.
00:56:01.440
Because isn't polygamy meant to be extremely open, honest?
00:56:04.820
Oh, that's basically me back in the days when I'm doing my thing.
00:56:16.960
You just said I'm on a marriage thing, so that's why I was like, how many have you got?
00:56:19.600
Because if you're going to get four, you've got time, you know?
00:56:22.100
Yeah, but I don't think it's fair that I marry one now while I'm in the situation I'm in,
00:56:27.240
and then when I'm extremely wealthy, which I know I will be, to then marry another one.
00:56:39.480
Yeah, but then when the second one comes, she'll be like, listen, I held you down for
00:56:43.080
all this time, and you are going to spend our money on this one.
00:56:47.000
But if they're okay with polygamy, they'll know about it from the beginning.
00:56:51.780
A lot of women say they're okay with it, but saying something and actually being okay
00:56:58.080
It's like a lot of girls, they'll be like, yeah, I don't mind just linking, and yeah,
00:57:01.500
we could just do this linking thing, and then after two solid congo men, then after,
00:57:07.300
you know what I'm saying, when it's swing left to right, all of a sudden, yeah, she
00:57:23.460
Like dating, hooking up, but without a relationship.
00:57:35.080
I mean, like, that's how me and my sons have started, I think.
00:57:55.280
Yeah, because it's interesting, because girls will say they're not, like, they only will do monogamy,
00:58:00.260
but when you're doing a talking stage, it's basically non-monogamy.
00:58:10.020
So, in a way, it's, like, just a different way of not doing monogamy.
00:58:13.200
I think anecdotally, as well, I think that happens a lot.
00:58:16.400
I think women, I think a lot of girls will do that.
00:58:18.560
They may have a boyfriend, but they'll be, like, talking to some other dudes, you know.
00:58:27.640
Like, it's, like, most girls, most girls, 2023, that's their situation.
00:58:30.960
No, he's right, though, because a lot of times, no, no, like, well, girls will have a boyfriend,
00:58:35.040
but still be getting attention from other dudes, because we'll be the first to judge men for cheating,
00:58:39.000
but we don't talk about how we get attention from other dudes while we're in relationships.
00:58:43.240
Like, oftentimes, girls will have open Instagrams.
00:58:45.160
Oftentimes, girls will be accepting messages from other guys.
00:58:47.680
Oftentimes, girls will be dressing really provocatively and going out,
00:58:50.460
and then we'll point the finger at the guys and say, oh, well, you cheated.
00:58:54.540
Well, I mean, you kind of cheated, too, by doing that, that, and that.
00:58:57.620
I just post them bikini pics on Instagram, acting like you're not just putting it all out there for everyone to see.
00:59:02.340
No, but I just think it depends on, like, the boundaries within your own relationship,
00:59:06.380
because if you had an open Instagram account before you got together, or he saw the type of...
00:59:11.680
He was sleeping with other girls before you got together.
00:59:13.400
Yeah, but when you get in a relationship, if you come to the agreement that we're monogamous...
00:59:19.920
And he doesn't want you to have an Instagram account.
00:59:21.000
Yeah, but no, no, no, but I'm saying, if you come to the agreement that, okay,
00:59:25.320
he doesn't want you to have an open Instagram, then, yeah, then that's different.
00:59:30.500
This is why men get a bad deal today, because men are told they can't have standards,
00:59:33.800
because if a guy says, close your Instagram, you can't go to the club.
00:59:38.340
And so men are always told they can't tell the girl anything.
00:59:41.820
But then why don't you seek out women who have a private Instagram account already?
01:00:07.680
I think guys will marry who they can get, to be honest, for the most part.
01:00:11.100
I mean, I think if he can get the 10, he's going to marry the 10.
01:00:14.880
I think the reason guys, for the most part, do that is because that's what they reckon they can achieve.
01:00:20.020
Yeah, but when you say 10, do you mean, like, looks, or do you mean, like, in terms of...
01:00:23.100
No, I mean, well, no, but to the question, does a guy prefer to marry a plain Jane?
01:00:27.680
I'm saying, I think, I think in reality, the guy's going to want to marry the most attractive woman who can.
01:00:32.480
I do take your point, though, there's a distinction between, do you mean, in terms of looks and in terms of personality.
01:00:39.640
So, yeah, I used to think I would want, like, the most beautifulest girl in the world, whatever.
01:00:44.220
But now I know I don't want the most beautiful girl in the world.
01:00:47.860
Because, like, that comes with a lot of stress, bro.
01:00:53.420
Like, walking down the road with a girl that's nice, like, bro, no, it's not my sister.
01:00:59.740
It's like, bro, it's like constant, constant, constant.
01:01:07.120
I'm just trying to get the normal thing, you know?