In 2020, my mother told my father something very important after her shop got burnt. It was about her business decision she was considering seriously. She sat down with it, restrategized; her goals were detailed and straight to the point. What she was concerned about was grounded in something she had been doing and thinking about before the incident.
My dad paid attention, as a cultured man from where I came from should do; he processed everything too and backed her up with action.
Like two months before she went back into the business. Her sister also came up with a very similar idea, which my dad was also present for. They joined everything together, asked questions, and took detailed notes on how to go about it on a piece of paper. And even they came up with a final decision.
My mother, that particular day, did not say much. She was just there observing every plan. And I was there too, looking at everything. Even though she has already made her plans, which were not changed but only worked on to make them look more perfect.
The problem with “listen to her” isn't that men don't hear the words. A lot still do because if it were to be another man, the plans that my mom had made, such a man would have changed everything and put his own ideas rather than working with the person who knows about the business. Some people will choose to show that they are the head instead of following who knows the right thing to do.
My mother already knew the right answer; she knew what to do already because she had been in the business even right before I was born, but at that moment, she just needed someone who would listen to her on how she was planning on her new move.
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