The Importance of Leaving Your Husband Alone

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I'm still surprised how many people's relationships, I see that in the idea that you don't say no to your husband. Women had no financial power and that work that the men were doing was considered so much more valuable because it was financially remorated. My husband is that generation that's kind of on the cusp of so he was raised with his idea of equality and feminism for women. But I feel like I had to teach him, you actually have to do laundry in order to be my ally. And you have to just enough that you're okay with everything else. You know, my biggest champion. Yes, yes, totally. How dare we kind of get them to

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

'I am my childhood’s wildest dream,’ says Saima Mir. This episode is about the process of getting there, not just the determination and hard work, but also the intangibles: the beliefs, ambitions and understandings that you don’t even know how to articulate, but which hold you up on a decades-long journey to becoming.

In this conversation, the journalist and bestselling novelist talks about shame, failure, the experience of being gossiped about - but also the inner strength and family support that allowed her to reinvent herself after leaving her first two husbands. Saima came late to journalism, but forged a successful career on TV and in print before writing her genre-changing (or will it be genre-defining?) novel, The Khan. Here, she surveys that pathway to this place, and how it built her iconic character, Jia Khan.

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