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The False Security that No Woman Sees (Until It Is Too Late)
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👉 Would you like to dive deeper in spirituality? Access Teal's (FREE) Lounge to get workbooks, summaries, reflective exercises and more. Click here: https://tealswan.vip/workbooks In this video, Teal Swan dives into the concept of safety and security in relationships, focusing on a prevalent yet false sense of security many women experience. Join Teal as she unpacks why this sense of security is often misplaced and explore healthier, more direct ways to meet our safety and relationship needs. ...
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the feeling of Safety and Security matters a lot to people and people

employ all kinds of strategies to try to feel safe and secure this is even more

true of women because women feel chronically far more unsafe in this

world and in this Human Society than men do but not all of these ways that people

try to find security actually guarantee Security today we're going to talk about

one of the most prevalent ways that women in today's world feel a sense of

security but that is actually a false sense of security I'm warning you in

advance this is going to be a real hard one for us

[Music] women first what I'm going to do is to

tell you what this false security is and then I'm going to unpack it for you

women believe and have been led to believe that a man being in love with

her and or being sexually attracted to her means that he is going to act in her

best interests that he has motive to take ownership of her well-being and

lend himself to her well-being this means protecting her from harm and

ensuring that her needs are met this is far more than an association that women

have formed it is an assumed given and this creates a sense of security for

many and I mean many women the minute that she can tell a man is into her she

feels more secure because even on a subconscious visceral level it is a

given for her that because he is into her she now has an advocate a defender

of her well-being should she need it this belief is ingrained into the fabric

of our species at this point now if you look back through time when men took

over the world and women were made into property there is no way for a woman to

secure her well-being without a man if she was lucky that security was

guaranteed by her father and or brothers But ultimately her well-being was only

secured by a man taking ownership of her and for a huge portion of human

cultures a man taking ownership of a woman was really down to whether he was

in love with her and and was sexually attracted to her important to remember

that those factors were not actually the basis of marriage for a long time but it

became that way so we like to think that this part of our pasts we sort of past

right but I've got to break it to you that women being able to secure their

well-being in society in any other way than through a man is so recent it

should make your head spin for example let's just look at America shall we it

was in my parents' generation meaning some of you were actually alive then it

was 1974 that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed which meant

that for the first time in history a woman could sign by herself on any

credit application without having a man co-sign for her and just two years ago

you guys this is 2022 the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution does not

confer any right to abortion what did this do it overruled both Row versus

Wade of 1973 and Planned Parenthood versus Casey of 1992 and it doesn't

matter what your stance on abortion is the reality is it created huge issues

with a woman having rights related to her own body and therefore a woman's

ability to secure her own well-being and guess what you can't just undo that in a

generation or two or three so what do we find we are in a transition right now

and it's one hell of a bad one if you look around the world you will see that

we do not yet live in a world where it is easy for women to secure their

well-being in other ways than through the venue of a man

this is really extreme from country to Country by the way we do not live in a

society where equality is a reality and yet women have more opportunities than

they did and Society is aggressively pushing towards gender

equality well most of society at the current rate gender equality not to be

confused with gender sameness is in fact still centuries away need meeting in

relationships in a society that is now focused on equality between genders

means that energy exchanges are not about gender anymore so they're no

longer as straightforward as they were it's simply about need meeting in

general but because of this no one knows where to actually get their needs met

because the old gender R's way of getting needs met doesn't really work

anymore and despite the reality that women should never be considered objects

or property there was a tiny little unforeseen downside to women not being

seen as property anymore and if we're into awareness work we need to look at

it what that is is is that to generalize both the negative and positive elements

of ownership have been dropped by men most people have a negative relationship

with the concept of ownership but there is such a thing as positive and negative

ownership and when people take positive ownership of things and thus take

responsibility for them what do we see they tend to caretake the well-being of

whatever they are taking ownership of and responsibility for if you want to

learn more about this you can watch my video that is titled own people how to

take ownership of your relationships well this drop of

ownership left women to fend for themselves when I'm going to be honest

with you guys fending for themselves was never what women were asking for as if

this wasn't bad enough the idea that a man being in love with a woman and are

sexually attracted to her means that he is going to act in her best interest and

keep her safe and secure is an idea that is reinforced by

all forms of entertainment think back to Disney when we

little there was really no Good Samaritan princes they rescued the

Damsel in Distress and protected the princess because they were in love with

them this idea Echoes through books verbal stories movies TV shows

commercials newspapers magazines advertisements and religious Doctrine

society's been very clear if you want to be safe and secure a man must want you

he must be in love with you he must be attracted to you so what does all this

boil down to men being seen as the venue through which a woman can ensure her

well-being men being the venue through which she can trust that she will be

safe and secure in this world and therefore women being desperate to gain

security by doing whatever it takes for a man to be sexually attracted to her

and to fall in love with her keep in mind that when a woman does her very

best to look and act in whatever way she thinks is going to make her attractive

to men and thus make a man fall in love with her so that she can have

security it's a form of manipulation manipulation is all about

not feeling like you can go for your needs directly so you have to go about

getting them in a roundabout way the security that women feel when a man is

sexually attracted to them and in love with them is actually a false security

if it were not a false security women would not have a million in one stories

of being harmed in their relationships with men

so let's look at why it is a false security whether a man will or will not

act in a woman's best interests and take responsibility for her well-being has

nothing to do with whether he is in love with her or is attracted to her or

not shocker right firstly we need to talk about what it means to be in love

to be in love with someone is not the same as to love someone we've got an

issue here with the English language because we have one word love to

represent a myriad of different states of being to be in love is a feeling

state of wanting someone it is positive appreciation for them it is attraction

to them sometimes it is attachment to them in love is a sensation that compels

you into a relationship with someone it feels good to you to be near them so you

want to do it again and again and when we are in love guess what the reward

centers of our brain are completely activated and I mean on total fire our

senses are stimulated and they drive us towards closeness with that other person

but there are so many wise behind Falling in Love That You Don't See from

pheromones to suppressed parts of the personality to needs a person thinks the

other person's going to meet for them to getting caught up in the biology of our

own reward centers to esoteric influences to be in love is in fact a

self-focused state it can go away love on the other hand is true caring about

the other it is a conscious choice to include someone as a part of you and by

doing so you cannot go against their best interests without harming yourself

a choice to act in the best interests of not just yourself but also them so let's

go here to generalize there are two pillars in a

relationship both pillars may be present in a relationship or there may be only

one one of those pillars is love true caring about the other the conscious

choice to include include the other person as a part of you and to be an

active Advocate to their well-being to act in their best

interests love is a very hard practice for people people have egos and thus

they tend to spend their time very very stuck in their own best

interests the other pillar is energy exchange this is really about Mutual

need meeting in a relationship it's what I get out of being in a relationship

with you and what you get out of being in a relation a ship with me where's the

mutual benefit you see energy Exchange in all forms of symbiosis on this Earth

some people may also call this a transaction energy exchange is an

element of every relationship but for the vast majority of people this energy

exchange is totally unconscious most of the time energy

exchanges in a relationship are hidden and assumed and people only tend to act

in each other's best interests when that energy exchange or transaction is car

cared out and maintained the relationships that are harmonious have

an underlying energy exchange that is working for both people nowadays living

a life in human society is so complex and so many of the old structures for

energy exchange between men and women are gone so there are lots of reasons

that an energy Exchange in a relationship might just fall apart to

simplify this relationships are mostly about Mutual need meeting this means

that when a woman has a a man that is in love with her she assumes that she meets

a need for him that will guarantee that he will act in her best interest but all

this meaning that a woman adds to the experience of a man being in love with

her and being sexually attracted to her may not actually reflect the actual

meaning of it it's at this point I'm going to hit you with a really hard

truth the most common thing it means if a man is in love with a woman and is

sexually attracted to a woman is this he thinks that she will meet a specific

need or desire that he has or that he will get that that need or desire met

through her somehow it would be easy to assume that because he sees her as the

venue through which a certain need or multiple needs will be met that he will

look out for her well-being after all one wants to preserve the fountain from

which they drink but let's say for example that a man is looking for status

through a relationship with a woman the minute that he secures that relationship

his need for status has already been met so why does he need to caretake her best

interest any more than is necessary to you know keep her around very important

to know that if a man is in love with a woman because of a need or desire he

thinks that he can get through her somehow lots of what he is doing for her

is not something that he likes to do it's what we call a so that they are so

that he can get these things he wants and needs and this is a recipe for

disaster because once the so that aim is achieved the intrinsic motive to do

those things for her starts to dwindle and if the so that aim isn't achieved

the same thing happens the motivation to do the those things also dwindles in

addition to this many men provide security for a woman at a price this is

a price that most women are totally unaware of because people in general are

rarely conscious and aware of their subconscious transactions and even if

they are people are unlikely to overtly share them if women knew what this cost

was going to be they would not feel as secure so that you can understand this

better here as an example Juliet had a mother that was always focused on work

and a disengaged father as a result she was super emotionally neglected and she

was on top of it because of this neglect molested by a teacher for several years

right under the nose of her parents she could find no way to get anyone to

really car take her well-being but when she turned into a teen she became hyper

aware that the other girls and women who were being obsessed over and who were

being taken care of and who are being protected were girls and women who had

boys and men men that were in love with them so she studied what made those

girls desirable and modeled herself after exactly that she became obsessed

with her looks she started dressing in super sexy clothes she learned how to

flirt she put on an air of confidence she became demonstratively affectionate

to the boys sure enough she ended up with her

first boyfriend and she felt so much more safe and secure Juliet finally had

some of her needs met and she finally had someone who had rushed her her side

into her defense if she got into problems and was facing trouble or

threats she had attention she had engagement she had belonging she had

protection she had containment and the list goes on the thing was boyfriend

number one did not keep it up in fact he abandoned her for another girl that he

happened to have fallen in love with so she jumped ship onto a new relationship

with a boy who would keep her safe and secure a boy who by the way was full of

rage towards the first boyfriend who had treated her so

badly the second one an exchange student was good for a while until he left the

country and then she jumped Shi to another relationship and so on and so

forth this went all the way through her adulthood Juliet felt like a hot potato

Juliet's belief that a man was the venue through which a woman could ensure her

well-being and be safe and secure in this world was reinforced by

everything TV shows movies books as well as her own life observations and

experiences after all she had watched firsthand men be totally unwilling to

lift a finger to help a woman succeed unless they got to be with them sexually

and she watched Men be totally uninterested in her Talent only fixated

on wanting her to be theirs and she watched the difference

between women who say had husbands that bought them cars and put them in

beautiful homes and on the other hand and women who were hard and stressed all

the time because they had no man in their

life and she got into lots of situations where she was unsafe where the only

person who was there to really come to her rescue was the man in her life after

all she intimidated a lot of her friends also her father and mother would not

bail her out of any trouble ever well Julet was married four times

and one day it dawned on her that every man she had ended up in a relationship

with had eventually gone directly against her best interests they had

abandoned her they had stolen her money they had cheated on her they had become

emotionally abusive and this list goes on and on it was then that she had an

epiphany Juliet's method of getting security through a man although

common had not actually worked many of those men that were her partner were

still in love with her and were still completely sexually attracted to her and

admitted it openly and this could mean one thing

that a man being in love with a woman and being sexually attracted to her is

actually no guarantee that he will act in her best

interests Juliet was going to have to find different methods for feeling safe

and secure in the world so let's look at some of the things she did she decided

to install a security system and get one of her best friends to move in she

started looking into finances and learned how to make herself safe and to

make smart financial decisions to set up Financial Security for herself and then

the next relationship she got into she directly told the man that this is what

she was looking for someone to protect her from emotional harm and someone to

prioritize her and it was understood that no matter how much she cared about

them if they made it a pattern to not do these two things she needed in a

relationship she would end the relationship with the exception of three

men that she dated every other man appreciated the straightforward

expression of exactly what her expectations were so so that they could

be the ones to then decide whether that was something that they could sign up

for and say yes to or not now that you understand this Dynamic there are also

two big chinks in the chain of this security through a man being in love

with me Dynamic they're really worth mentioning

in male female relationships one of the biggest issues is that men tend to not

perceive the threats that women perceive given that for so many women the energy

exchange that they are actually expecting is for saf and security be it

emotional mental or physical the man I.E the one that is on that end of the

energy exchange had better perceive the threat and respond to it then otherwise

he isn't answering to the actual need and so he isn't actually keeping up his

end of the assumed bargain whether he agreed to it or not a final thing to

consider is that this whole dynamic we've been talking about perpetuates a

serious degree of separation within Society itself if the source of a

woman's security is a man being sexually attracted to her and being in love with

her this makes other women a threat to her she thinks she has to insulate the

relationship with him and exclude others and this reinforces the binary

relationship system as well as the nuclear family neither of which is

natural or healthy for a physical human if we were living in groups like what is

natural for us and our needs security and safety would be something that is

provided by all members of the group to every other member of the group now it

doesn't take a genius to see that this is a much more secure and safe system

for people in general so what's the moral of the story for the sake of this

conversation it doesn't matter how things should or shouldn't be the

reality is that a man being in love with and or sexually attracted to a woman

does not mean that he is going to act in her best interests it does not mean that

he will caretake her well-being his decision to do that is separate from

whether he is in love with and or sexually attracted to her on top of this

mastering the two pillars of relationship which is consciously

choosing to love as well as conscious and Direct Energy exchanges is the

future of Human Relationships you can only successfully do that when you see

that the current way that you are trying to secure an energy exchange doesn't

actually guarantee that the need you you have will be met if you want to learn

more about this I would really suggest that you watch my video titled be

consciously transactional why every relationship is

transactional if you are a woman and you recognize yourself getting sucked into

this false security which is so common really consider the following what

threats are you afraid of and therefore what type of security are you actually

looking for what might be the best way to go directly for security relative to

each unique threat and therefore each security need consider answers that

involve a man potentially even a male partner and consider answers that

don't have a good week [Music]