Hey, it's your girl, simply Shanika, and you are now listening to The Goddess Confessions. the goddess confessions. Always keep your standards tied no matter what anyone has to say about it. You know one

thing I don't like about society is how they love to label women who have high standards

gold diggers. Well, I just want to say that I don't believe that the word gold digger exists at all. It is false. I feel like it's a made

up word by a group of people who want to shun women for saying that they expect the man that

they're going to be in relationship with, a man that they're going to be in relationship with a man that they're going to have children with

To be able to provide for her and her family

But somewhere along the lines those roles got mixed up lost in

translation and now we're in this weird time where a woman is perceived to be a gold digger because she wants a man of quality.

Now a man of quality. Now a man of quality could mean a number of things. Yes, being

financially stable is definitely one of those things as well as being mentally and spiritually stable as well, having a connection,

a great foundation, and his character, how does he treat other people?

All those things combined into one make women respect men and what.

But saying that as a woman you want a man that's financially stable that seems to get a lot of people

round up these days and I have to wonder why I mean shouldn't that be the standard for everyone

I mean shouldn't we all strive to be the best that we can be to provide the best for ourselves and especially for the

children if we're going to do that as well. I know a lot of us were raised to accept struggle love and to accept whatever comes out our way because any man is better than no man at all and this way of thinking has made a lot of us

settle in relationships that we don't really want to be in because we are afraid of being alone or afraid of what other people may say about us.

Well, one thing I'll always stick to is I'll never settle and you should never settle either.

If you have standards and things that you want, you should not give up on those things just to be happy and something mediocre.

Because that's definitely not going to make you happy. So you have to decide, are he going to settle or are you going to do what you think is best for you to make yourself happy.

As I've said,

Bill diggers don't exist, ladies.

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