A short YouTube monologue (speaker: Anwar White) exploring why people—especially women in dating contexts—give others the benefit of the doubt. The speaker argues this tendency is a learned behavior rooted in childhood/inner-child wounds, and recommends lowering defensive walls while simultaneously strengthening clear boundaries and taking others’ actions at face value. The piece mixes direct advice with conversational asides.
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Mysteries and tea. Do we ladies need to stop giving the benefit of the doubt? Is it just. Is it really just excuses? And when they show us a behavior for the first time, just believe that's who they really are and act accordingly. Well, it depends on the actual, like, situation, right? If it's like a pure misunderstanding, it's one thing, and that's where you would set a boundary. And then if he disrespects that boundary again, he's out. Right. But it really depends on, like, what the actual action is. But I'm always interested in the why. Why do we get benefits of the doubt, right? And what I have seen.
I gotta charge this. This phone before it goes out, honey. Anytime my phone tells me that it has 20%, it feels like I'm about to die, honey. Freaks me out.
So when people are giving people the benefit of the doubt, please understand that that's a learned behavior and that you probably needed to give your parents the benefit of the doubt because of some of the actions and words that they did or said that didn't make you feel loved. So this is partly an inner child wound, but this is also partly a vulnerability opportunity for you, Right. If you're giving the benefit of the doubt, it is often because.
You'Re not showing your full, authentic self in your life or in your dating life specifically. And so because you're not doing that and you have these hall, these high walls up. What I've learned in the work that I've done is that you have your real self behind these walls. And so when you see someone show up as they are, you think that there's something behind those walls and you don't take it for what it is. You're trying to see if there's something different behind what's being shown in front of you. But in reality, what you actually need to do is just take everything that these guys are doing and saying at, like, face value and just honor that. Right? And. But the way that you do that is by literally lowering your walls and strengthening your boundaries.
