The writer shares some of the most important lessons she believes every woman should learn.
THERE are certain lessons I wish more women were taught earlier in life, not from a place of bitterness, but from wisdom, experience, and understanding how life really works. From my experience in raising daughters and 40 years of working in corporate spaces across the world, these are some of the most important lessons I believe every woman should learn.
You don’t do this because you expect the worst from people, but because life is unpredictable. Relationships change, circumstances change and people change. Someone can love you deeply today and walk away tomorrow. That is not cynicism, it is reality and there is nothing more dangerous than placing your entire survival in the hands of another human being.
Every woman should have her own income, her own savings, and some form of reserve she can fall back on. This is not a secret escape plan, but a form of dignity, confidence, and protection. Financial dependence forces you to stay in situations you should leave.
Women are often expected to give endlessly, financially, emotionally, physically, until there is very little left for themselves. We help everyone else build their futures while neglecting our own. Your money is hard-earned. You are allowed to plan for your future, your goals and your dreams. All the money you make doesn’t belong to everyone else before it belongs to you. You get to decide what you do with it.
