Episode 87

Stop Mothering Your Man

Hilary is calling it out the silent epidemic of high-achieving women accidentally becoming their partner’s project manager instead of their partner.
14 mins
Hilary Silver dressed in a black t-shirt with the word 'AMOUR' and leather pants poses playfully, blowing a kiss against a simple background.

Show Notes

If you’re a woman who can run circles around most humans — yet still finds herself scheduling her partner’s appointments, tracking his moods, or generally keeping his life stitched together — congratulations, you’re unofficially in man-keeping mode. Hilary is calling it out the silent epidemic of high-achieving women accidentally becoming their partner’s project manager instead of their partner. Spoiler: nothing kills attraction faster than turning romance into a daycare.

But rather than blaming men, she hands the steering wheel back to us. How much of this dynamic exists because we keep jumping in? What happens if you stop over-functioning and let him rise,  or reveal that he won’t? This episode is a wake-up call for every woman who’s tired of being needed more than she’s cherished. Because you don’t need another job title. You need a partner who carries his own weight without being micromanaged.

In this episode, you’ll learn...

Episode Highlights:
  • The real reason competent women keep ending up in mothering roles
  • How “helping” becomes control disguised as care
  • Why boundaries are sexier than over-giving
  • The one-liner that stops you from taking on his “we should” ideas
  • How to instantly shift the power dynamic without drama or nagging
Episode Breakdown:
[00:00] What Is Man-Keeping?
[01:09] When You Start Feeling Like His Mom
[02:33] The Real Fix: Change Your Own Patterns
[06:25] Stop Over functioning and Set Boundaries
[07:27] Flip the “We Should” Script
[11:08] Love Is Partnership, Not Parenting

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Have you ever noticed in your relationships

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that you’re not just the girlfriend or the wife,

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but you’re also the therapist, the business coach,

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the personal assistant, the social planner, the cheerleader,

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and the organizer of all things?

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If you’re nodding your head right now, you are not alone.

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There’s actually a new name for this.

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The New York Times recently ran a piece about

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what they called man keeping the invisible labor

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and role that women take on to keep their relationships

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and honestly their men afloat.

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It’s everything from planning the date nights

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to remembering the birthdays, to being the one

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who is a safe space.

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For him to vent and cry to carrying the mental, emotional,

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social, and even physical load of his life on top

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of your own is exhausting.

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And quite frankly, it’s a turnoff

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and it’s why so many women are opting out

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of relationships right now.

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But rather than just complain about it

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and feed into all the drama

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and hysteria, we need to be asking a very simple

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but important question, how do we fix this issue?

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And so that is what we are going to be talking about today.

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Let’s be honest, when you’re scheduling his doctor’s

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appointments, making sure that he gets his work done,

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managing his moods and holding all the calendar things

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together, you don’t feel like his equal.

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You feel like his mom an ew.

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That is not sexy for either of you.

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Nothing kills attraction faster than mothering a man.

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This dynamic and so-called man keeping doesn’t

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just drain your energy.

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It changes the entire vibe of the relationship.

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You can’t feel adored, cherished,

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or desired when you’re basically parenting him

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and he can’t show up as your partner or your lover.

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With this masculine

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and feminine energy dynamic all distorted between you,

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the passion dies and suddenly you’re not.

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Two equals building a life together,

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you are running a daycare and the relationship becomes

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filled with resentment, power, struggle,

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and is void of the intimacy

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and connection from two whole

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individuals choosing to share their lives.

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It might seem like you just have two choices behind door.

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Number one, suffer these burdensome unfulfilling

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relationships behind dorm number two, f**k it,

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just stay single because who wants all of that?

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But the truth is there is a door number three, one

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where you single handedly get to break these patterns.

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And it’s not by changing all the deeply entrenched

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generational social and emotional problems of men,

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because of course that’s impossible.

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You do this by changing yourself.

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It’s really tempting to just pile it on and blame men.

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That’s honestly what most people are doing, saying

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that men are just big kids and they never grow up

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and complaining that they always lean on us for everything

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and what would they do without us?

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But the bitter pill, the hard truth is this is happening

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because not only are you allowing it,

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but you are potentially even inviting it, encouraging it.

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You swoop in and act like Mighty Mouse.

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Here I come to save the day.

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All the talk right now is on how men are falling

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behind and struggling.

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And it’s hard to pity

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or have empathy for men when this entire system

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and infrastructure of our world has been built by men

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for their own advantage.

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But if they fall, we all go down with them.

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And despite all the frustration,

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we are wired for connection.

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We are relational beings

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and most of us do want a partner to share our lives with.

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So the only solution is to stop complaining and blaming

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and just f*****g fix it.

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The only way that we can, which is to take responsibility

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for how we women are showing up.

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Yes, the men need to do their own work.

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And it starts with the early conditioning of boys

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around emotional intelligence and self-esteem

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and healthy masculinity

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and a whole new paradigm of partnership

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that most midlife men were not exposed

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to when they were young.

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But yes, same is true for us.

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We were conditioned to be the glue, to be the wonder woman,

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to do all the things for all people and put ourselves last,

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and that we are somehow noble for being selfless

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and that our worth comes from helping people

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and being of service and it’s feminine to be a caretaker

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and all that other b******t.

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So in essence, the real truth is that we are doing this

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to ourselves because even if the men in our lives are

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leaning on us too much, we sign up.

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We are the load bearing pillar that they lean on.

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We too quickly step in

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and fill the gap rather than just leaving the vacant space

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so he can fill it himself.

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When you pick up all the slack instead

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of holding a boundary when you keep rescuing him

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because it feels easier than watching him struggle

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or wondering if something will get done at all.

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And when it feels good to be needed and when your worth

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and value comes from giving and helping

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and rescuing, you sign up for this

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and are complicit in creating this dynamic.

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You are getting something out of it and then you resent him.

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And so here’s the thing, you are robbing him

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of the opportunity to do it himself and to do it for you.

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And over time he just becomes the fat cat having everything

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handed to him on a platter.

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You give him a great life

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and he doesn’t really do anything to contribute.

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But the real kicker here is it may seem great

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to men at first to have all of this handed to him,

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but over time it erodes his own self-worth even more

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because we all need to contribute.

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You are filling in this space that he needs to be taking up.

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You are taking away the opportunity for him to step in

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and step up and then it becomes about your win.

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Or if things don’t go well, you take responsibility

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for the fall, but you also then get to control things

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and have things done your way and on your own timeline.

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So there’s something in it for you being this way.

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You are the hero rescuing him.

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But that’s when man keeping becomes in reality,

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woman allowing.

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So how do you stop it? Here’s the magic pill.

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The moment that you stop over-functioning, the dynamic

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changes the moment that you let him carry his own weight,

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the energy shifts.

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He has to be his own hero first

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and then he can actually be become your hero

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rather than the other way around as it has been.

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When you set clear boundaries and say what you will

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and will not do, you reclaim your power.

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This isn’t about being cold

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or withholding love, it’s about showing up

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as your full self,

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not the water down overworked version of you.

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To be honest, it’s the martyr version inside of all of us.

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You cannot be the rescuer,

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the over-functioning version of you.

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And yes, maybe he will resist at first.

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He may be uncomfortable and he may not like this at all,

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but a man who truly values himself

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and you will rise to meet the occasion.

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And if he doesn’t, he’s telling you everything that you need

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to know about whether he’s even capable of partnership.

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So what does this look like in practice?

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It looks like saying, I’d love

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for you to plan our next date.

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I want to feel taken care of too.

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Or if he asks, where should we go?

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You could just say, I really trust you

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to pick something wonderful for us.

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You know what I like and you know

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what we like, so go for it.

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It looks like letting him sit with his stress instead

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of stepping in as his unpaid therapist.

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It looks like allowing him to experience the discomfort

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of having to figure things out without you rushing

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in to save the day.

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And it looks like you finally having the energy, the clarity

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and the joy to be in a relationship where your partners

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not all those other roles, you get to lean back

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and receive what he’s offering you

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and what he is giving to you.

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And that’s because there is space for him to do it.

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So here’s an example, a real tangible,

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practical example from my own relationship

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that you may be able to relate to

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early on in our relationship.

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My husband probably then boyfriend would say things like,

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we should do this or we should do that.

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And then I would just take it upon myself to do it.

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I’m a make it happen kind of person anyway. I’m a doer.

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But after a while it occurred to me

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that we should meant you should as in me, Hillary

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at first I interpreted it as he intended this

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to mean I should do it.

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But the important thing here is this,

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where everyone else gets hung up on these things,

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it really doesn’t matter what he may

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or may not have intended, whether he meant

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that I should do it or not.

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It’s what I heard and

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therefore my actions that followed, I interpreted it the way

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that I did over the years, 25 years of them to be exact.

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I have learned to stop doing this

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and my response now to that we should statement is simply

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great, great idea.

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I love it. Go for it. Let me know if you need help.

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I refuse to take it on myself.

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If it’s something he thinks that should be done,

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he can do it because I have my own long list

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of things I think should be done and I’m already doing them.

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We still have a shared should list that we both do together.

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And when the shoulds are something that we both value,

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it’s a discussion about who will take it on.

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But it is 100% no longer a default assumption

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that it’s my job to do it.

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It’s so simple and powerful at the same time.

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Now, I know that some

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of you are already hearing the objections in your own head,

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but what if he doesn’t ask me out?

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Can I ask him or?

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But what if he doesn’t do that thing that’s

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so important and it affects me?

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Or what if he’s struggling? It doesn’t matter.

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Swooping in to save the day means he

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doesn’t get to save himself.

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He doesn’t get to rise to the occasion and learn and grow.

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He needs to rescue himself

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to accomplish these things himself,

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to experience the consequences

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or the triumphs of his own actions.

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And you stepping in to manage him and be the buffer

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or the safety net not only delays his own growth,

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it completely inhibits it.

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Will there be consequences?

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Yes, maybe it means that you don’t get to go out

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with him if he can’t ask you out,

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but that is good information for you about who he is.

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My personal mantra when I was single was,

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if he doesn’t ask me for my number, he can’t have it.

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And if he doesn’t ask me out on a date, then he doesn’t get

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to go out with me.

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It really helped me stop stepping in.

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Try that because it does work.

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Wouldn’t you rather know the truth about who you’re

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with than to carry or invite a dynamic that drains you?

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Hearing this might mean that some

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of you are getting triggered and you feel well selfish

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or guilty thinking like isn’t love

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about being there for each other?

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Nobody’s perfect. We all need help sometimes.

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And yes, that’s true, but mutually love is about partnership

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and reciprocity, not parenting.

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You can be supportive and loving and nurturing

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and stand with him without carrying him.

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So here’s the takeaway that I want you to leave with today.

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Projects are for landscaping your backyard, ladies,

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not for your love life.

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And you are not a therapy center.

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You are not a personal assistant, you are not a daycare.

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You are a woman who deserves partnership.

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And partnership means both of you showing up fully,

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emotionally, socially, practically

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to create something balanced and alive.

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And it starts with you owning this tendency to step in

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and start leaning back with healthy boundaries for yourself.

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So this week I want you to pick one place

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where you’ve been over-functioning,

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and I promise there probably is at least

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one step stepping in.

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Experiment with leaning back.

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Say no, let something go undone. Let him take it on.

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And then notice what happens.

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Notice the relief in your body.

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Notice the energy

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that comes back when you stop carrying someone else’s load.

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Notice how much more space there is for actual connection,

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for intimacy, for attraction.

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When you’re not over-functioning in the relationship,

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just be his date.

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Just be his lover, his partner.

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Stop taking on all these roles that are not part

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of a healthy romantic relationship.

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This is our part of the problem

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that we can fix whether he does anything or not.

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You can single handedly change this dynamic

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by owning your responsibility, your role,

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and your contribution to it.

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And if you’re listening to this

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and realizing, yep, this is me.

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I’ve been mothering, managing and man keeping for years

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and I don’t know how to stop, that is the work that we do

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inside of Ready for Love.

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We help you break free from all

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of these deeply embedded patterns, reclaim your boundaries,

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and create the kind of love where you are cherished

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as the woman that you are, not

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as the mom he never grew out of needing.

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If you’re ready for that shift, book a call with my team.

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The link is in the show notes,

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or you can go to ready for love inc.com/apply.

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And if this episode resonated with you, please share it

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with a friend who needs to hear it.

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