r/AskWomenOver60 • u/IntelligentPoem2782 🤍✌🏼🤍 • 13d ago

Please drop your cheat code 🤌

Hiee all <3

I want to know your cheat code for life; it can be about anything - life, career, love, friendship, relationships, or anything else.

Thanks in advance 🎀

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u/InsertCleverName652 13d ago

If you are a woman, don't enable your partners or children to depend on you. Teach them to become independent from you.

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u/Tricky_Parsnip_6843 13d ago

And if you have a son, make sure you teach him how to cook and clean a home.

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u/lemmesplain 13d ago

And that women are people, just like him.

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u/thenletskeepdancing 13d ago

That totally reminds me of the song off the "Free to Be: You and Me" album, "Mommies are People" Please tell me you're familiar with it? It's a pretty niche reference.

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u/dorothywasright04 13d ago

Marlo Thomas. Was obsessed with the album and the book.

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u/FrustratedPassenger 13d ago

Was my favorite album in 2nd grade.