Exactly! The parts of my life that I'm willing to share are
dreadfully boring. That's why I'm trying to come up with an interesting, watchable model.
I don't know if I effected any long-term change in her, but I had to break reality down to one of my cousins has this silly frustration towards her mom, who she feels "does too much for others (especially their dad, my uncle-in-law) and not enough for herself." This cousin grew up in the very rural south, father worked at a plant, mother was a teacher. They're both pretty traditional - he was always working, would leave at 4/5 in the morning and not be back until 8/9 at night. She cooks (OMG can my aunt cook) and cleans. I'm not sure they "needed" the two incomes, but they have the funds to do whatever
they (the "they" is important) want now. My cousin's problem is (she spends way too much time on IG and listening to hawt gurl summer, "travel bug" shyt and subsequently) she thinks her mom is "stuck" in rural _______, because she believes her dad not being interested in traveling the country or the world while they're retired, trying different styles of food and other stuff silly women these days think you "need" to do in order to have a "fulfilled" life is 'holding her mom back' from doing those things.
What's funny is I've called my aunt a few times specifically to talk about relationships, marriage, raising kids, etc. She is
madly in love with my uncle-in-law to this day. The things she likes to do (like 'doing too much for others') are what gives her fulfillment and make her happy. But, my cousin can't see this, because fake reality (television, Internet and movies) have convinced young women to
project it's the housewives who are really unfulfilled and unhappy, and not themselves. Fulfilled people don't need to cope with life by filling themselves with distracting
eXpErIeNcES like going to different beaches around the world for two days and three nights and bragging about it on their seven dating profiles.
I asked my cousin if she had ever open-mindedly talked to her mom about this stuff and she did that Neo Matrix dodge shyt women are so adept at. Lol It's impossible for her to imagine that her mom's "boring" life is anything but. She's a beautiful young woman (my whole family is attractive af, gives me great pride) and just turned twenty-nine. I hope she gets over this goofy "My friends and I are gonna be 'Living Single Golden Girls'" mess soon, though.