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Nicola Blackwell's avatar

This is such an insightful interview - how much things have changed in actually not that many years, It's breathtaking. And it made me well up! Reminds me how my dad says that he used to work and give him mum his wage, and she'd give him pocket money. And then when he married my mum, she started off handling the finances until it became clear she was great at spending but not so great at budgeting. So yes, then it did go to him to look after the finances, though she always worked so she could feel like she had her own money. I love the autonomy women have today, and the opportunities, but I can see how life is simpler in some ways and harder in others.

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Amber Horrox's avatar

Oh my lovely nana 🥰 times have been so hard in her lifetime. Yet there was such simplicity to it and meaning.

She tells me they were happier then than we are now (as do all elderly clients I’ve worked with). That there was less comparison because you were all poor together.

I have such a complicated relationship with privilege, because so much of it isn’t serving us and so much of it i see as birthright. Why the great imbalance?

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