Video summary
The video features relationship expert Tony Gos addressing a common issue where single women provide excessive domestic services, such as cooking, cleaning, and laundry, to their boyfriends too early in a relationship. He argues that offering these "husband benefits" before marriage often backfires because men tend to take such generosity for granted rather than viewing it as a sign of the woman's worthiness. Gos explains that when a woman caters to every man she meets with the same level of service, it signals to potential partners that she is not looking for a specific husband but is simply available to anyone who will accept her help. Consequently, men may feel no obligation to commit or provide in return, leading to a dynamic where the woman serves without earning respect or security.
Gos emphasizes that true attraction comes from a woman knowing her own value and maintaining an element of mystery rather than being overly accessible or eager to please. He suggests that men are naturally drawn to women who have their own ambitions, fitness, and interests, as this creates a sense of challenge and effort required to win their affection. By focusing on self-improvement and building a strong personal brand outside of the relationship, a woman gives herself more "runway" or time before needing to compromise her standards. He illustrates that men appreciate women who are hard to get and who bring something unique to the table, rather than those who perform all domestic duties immediately, which can inadvertently suggest low self-esteem or desperation.
Furthermore, the speaker discusses the importance of a woman's "brand," defining it not just as an online presence but as her character, fitness, ambition, and emotional intelligence. He warns against women who position themselves as relationship experts or givers of unsolicited advice, noting that such behavior often repels serious men who want a partner, not a mentor. Gos shares his personal example of marrying a woman who did not know how to cook or do laundry initially, highlighting that these skills can be learned over time within a marriage. He concludes by urging women to flip the script on societal expectations, encouraging them to prioritize their own growth and ensure they are attracting men who appreciate their worth rather than those looking for free labor or emotional manipulation.
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Hey, hey, Tony Gos here. Y'all got to
forgive him for this here lighting in
here, but wanted to pop in
and chat with you for a little bit while
my wife and Tayen is at soccer practice
cuz when they get home, I'mma have to
go. But saw a young lady say that she
like to cook and clean and all of that
for her boyfriend. She like to do all of
that. Y'all forgive her. This my uh
my face mask right here. Cord for my red
light. Red light face mask
when I be doing my skin care sema check
uh Omni Lux.
And then this my red light
red light hat. Get that for that hair.
Yes sir. be sitting in here that red
light treatment.
So yeah, y'all forgive me. But young
lady say she like to
take and higher do send me a check.
She like to cater to her man when it's
her boyfriend. She like to showcase. She
like to show she is a wife.
And I always told y'all,
don't give a boyfriend husband benefits.
And every man be like, "Hey, how I'm
going to know that you a wife
if you don't show me wife things and and
live and do like a wife?" Now, this the
thing what you got to realize and
understand
is
what the young lady was saying is she
like to do that stuff. She like to do
all that. Now, to my knowledge, she's
single, so it ain't worked out. Cuz
I'm going be honest with you. I don't
think a married woman got a whole lot of
time to be online bumping the guns.
I really don't think a a married woman
got a whole lot of time to be doing all
that.
So
if you single and what you have been
doing has not worked yet and somebody
like myself who teaches on relationships
all day every day says the opposite of
what you've been doing then you need to
look within and you need to listen a
little closer.
It's different if you doing your thing
and it's working for you. But if it
ain't working for you and you not
becoming a wife, then you need to listen
to other input from those of us who know
what we talking about and giving you the
game. Now, this what I'm telling you
from a male perspective.
cooking, cleaning, laundry, sex,
oral sex, all that.
Be that as it may, that you love doing
it and you want to do it and you want to
showcase, you want to audition for a
man, what we going to do is we're going
to take you for granted.
I'm telling you the truth. Now, grown
boys going to tell you the otherwise. is
going to take you for granted because
you given us everything and we have not
earned it. We're going to appreciate it.
We going to be happy you doing it, but
that ain't going to make you get no
rain. It's not going to make you get a
rain. And that's why it's women that be
cooking and cleaning for 10, 15 years
and still ain't got no rain. Because the
man is like, "Why do I have to give her
more if she already given me
everything?"
Whereas women think the more I give him,
the more he's going to think that I'm
worthy of being his wife. And that's not
true. He's going to say she has low
self-esteem and she doesn't know her
worth and she doesn't know her value.
So, she is serving me and catering to me
and giving me everything as a man. and I
haven't even put in the work to earn it.
Nor am I even being faithful to her, nor
is she the only woman I'm dating and she
flipping and tossing and doing all this,
that, and the third. And that's what the
man going to say. And he's not going to
respect you. He's not going to respect
you. He's not going to feel like, "Oh,
she amazing.
Oh, she doing this and that." No, he
just he going to eat up your food. He
going to let you do all of that that
that you doing and and all of that right
there. And that's just what you going to
be doing.
This architecture
design.
Y'all forgiven. Kind of curious what
this bag is up here. Oh, this for my
hat.
I'm like this stuff up here. That's for
my hat.
with the hat I got on. Y'all forgive me.
I just be having stuff in all around
here. And so that's how he gonna see
you. He gonna see you like that. He's
not going to give you any extra
benefits, any extra credit. It's not
like he going to be like, "Oh, wow. She
is amazing. She just so amazing. I'm f
to marry her cuz she know how to cook
beef stroen all. She know how to cook
casserole, lasagna.
I'm f to marry her. No, he fa to sit
there and eat. And this what I've been
telling women since 2007, since my first
book, if you cater to a man, we are
going to kick up our feet.
A man is supposed to be a provider.
We're supposed to work. And yes, we
don't want to do that. No, it's not fun
for us. Busting our butt and providing
and getting a thank you in return. No,
that ain't that ain't what we want. N.
But I'm telling you what's going to make
a man respect you because he knows that,
okay, she not greedy, she not selfish,
but she's not easy. She knows her worth.
She knows her value and if you take and
you just do all this for a man
and he hasn't earned it, he knows that
you do that for every man. So like the
women saying who, oh I like to cook, I
like to clean. I like to do this. I like
to do that. Well, that let that let a
man know that no man is special to you.
That you're doing that because you want
to do that. So if you want to do that,
you want to do that for every man. So
now that make a man like you less
because he's like, "Well, it's nothing
special about me to her because I ain't
earned this. So this mean she do this
all this slaving she doing. She do this
for Tom, Dick, and Harry. And how am I
to know I'm her husband and I'm the one
if she do this for everybody?" Because
she like to do it. And that's why y'all
have to realize like it's important to
listen and to learn from honest men
that's giving away the game. And I seen
men in the comments and like yeah that
what you got to do and yeah got to do
this. Yeah that all that right there. I
said boy one thing about it is you could
be dumb. You could sound dumb and a man
going to let you be dumb. He gonna talk
you right on up that dumb hill. He gonna
let you be as dumb as you want to be. As
lost as you want to be, he gonna
encourage you in that. If you want to be
a fool, if you want to be a do girl, he
going to he going to hype you up so
much. Oh yeah. Go right ahead. Yeah. Do
girl. Yeah.
If that's what you want to be, I
guarantee you he going to let you be it.
He not f to tell you, hey, you know,
you're not supposed to be doing all of
that for no man who's not your man. You
ain't supposed to be cooking and
cleaning and all that right there for no
man that ain't your man now.
>> Come on now. You supposed to be a you
supposed to play a little hard to get
now.
And that's what he's going to tell you.
I mean, he I mean, he's not going to
tell you that. He going to let you. He
coming over there to eat every day. And
then you want to spend the night and all
of that right there. You want to spend
the night? Oh, that what he want. He
want you to spend that night.
Absolutely. He want you to spend the
night. He want you to He want you to do
his laundry.
And And I'll be honest with you, and
this is what a lot of women ain't going
to understand this now.
I've never done laundry because when I
was a boy, my mama did the laundry. When
I went to college, I might have did my
laundry in college, but to my knowledge,
I don't remember cuz I always got male
woman. Always got me a woman. Soon by as
soon as I got to college, got me a
little white girl. was with her for a
year, then got me a blight girl, was
with her for two years, then met my
wife, been with her ever since. So, I I
cannot really recall ever doing laundry.
And that's what I'm trying to tell
y'all. Now, listen. the the two young
ladies I dated in college but for my
wife
they
doing whatever
sex laundry
cooking whatever it was
didn't get no rain
then didn't head take my wife
did not know how to cook
I don't recall if she did my laundry but
my wife didn't know how to cook go
figure
the woman who don't know how to cook is
the one I married. She learned how to
cook over the years of marriage. Tonight
we having salmon bake.
Sushi bake, but it's salmon sushi bake
with like the the sushi. Not know it's
like the salmon in there, the rice,
think crab meat, too. And then you have
the seaweed with it.
So my wife,
my wife ain't no spectacular cook. Like
she could cook now, but ain't like she
chef Bard D now. And
she do the laundry, you know. She she
wash the clothes, fold the clothes. We
got a dishwasher, so she ain't got to
wash dishes. But it's like,
go figure. See, the thing about it is
that women don't understand about men is
we are workers. We gogetters.
The harder we got to work, the more we
like a woman. The more we got to chase a
woman, the more we got to do for a
woman, the more we got to cater to her,
the more we like her. Every real man
knows that it is of the essence
that we work for a woman's heart.
Every real man knows that it doesn't
mean you're playing games because you
don't want to do all this cooking and
all this cleaning and all of that. Like,
yes, you should do it if that's a skill
that you have and you want to show that
you have that skill, but that's one meal
a week.
You don't have to cook for him five days
a week for him to know you know how to
cook. And he's not dumb. He knows that
you want to be a wife. And he knows that
he's not your husband. And he's actually
he's not going to tell you this. I'm
telling you this. He's actually going to
respect you more the fact that I'm
making sure I had turned it back on. He
actually gonna respect you more. The
fact that
he knows now you're not cooking five
meals a day, five meals a week for every
man you meet. So now it's a treat. He
get to eat your meal once a week.
He get to
wash you wash his clothes.
But he also if he want you to wash his
clothes he giving you vulnerability
because there might be crud in his
draws. It's going to be a it's going to
be a streak in them draws now. It just
going draw going to grip that booty and
it it's going to be a little streak in
there now. Even if it just dead skin
coloration on them draws. So it's like
he letting you watch some dirty draw.
So he he might as well see you like a
wife cuz now you got something on them
now. Like draw had a little hint on
them. Boy, them draw
was sour boy. What you what you ran a
marathon?
And so that's a risk for him. And then
now now granted a lot of women can't
cook now. So you go to with that old
salted chicken
or that unsalted chicken, you might cost
yourself a husband. So don't be so quick
to get in that kitchen now cuz the food
might not be good as you think it is.
And same thing with washing clothes. Now
you washing clothes. And this is the
thing,
a man really don't care about all that
stuff cuz he could do all that stuff for
himself if he need to. A man want a
woman that got them three B's. Point
blank period. And y'all got to remember
brand don't mean that you own a company.
It don't mean you're a billionaire. Your
brand is also who you sleeping with.
Your brand is what are you building on
the side?
That could be you got a blog that don't
make no money. Your brand is what have
you started that you can't be fired
from? What have you started that you
passionate about? That's also a brand.
Brand don't mean when I was talking
about no man wants a woman that's online
giving relationship advice.
Women was like, "Well, Tony, what about
the brand? What about the brand?" They
just built the wrong brand for a wife.
You built the wrong brand. Brand don't
mean talking online. Brand don't mean
giving advice online. That ain't just
what a brand is. If that if that's what
you want to be your brand, okay, but
it's not a man on the face of this earth
that want to be with a woman that think
she's a knowit all in relationships and
think she understand everything about a
man. No man want to be with that type of
woman cuz he knows that she going to try
to run him. He also knows she going to
try to game him. She gonna try to play
him. No man want to be with a woman like
that. No man wants to be with a
advicegiving woman if the advice is
going to impact and affect his
livelihood.
If you giving advice about makeup, he
don't care about that. You giving advice
about women's bodies fitness and
estrogen and hormones, he don't care
about that. You giving advice about
finances and credit, he don't care about
that. But if you giving relationship
advice, he the one got to be in a
relationship with you. He don't want to
be with you. If you know it all and you
think you understand men and you know
how to gain men, you know how to play
men, you know how to get this and get
that and you done shared all that
online. You're writing yourself a single
woman ticket. That's why the young lady
who have the dating app and have the
singles dating show is still single
because there's not going to be a honest
man that want a relationship
advicegiving woman. It just it does not
exist. I don't care what y'all try to
tell me. And and the man that show up,
he he bisexual or down low or he's a
user and he coming to get a check. He
coming to get him a F250 or a G Wagon or
a Escalade or a Tahoe, whatever he into.
He coming to get him a car. He coming to
have him somewhere to stay,
have a bigger house than he would be
able to get on his own. And he coming to
trap the woman. He coming to trap her
because he knows she bumping her gums
online about love and relationships. So
now she got to live up to that. That's
why my wife's so safe and sound and
secure because she know I can't do
nothing. So when I'm on the road, my
wife don't care. She don't be checking
to see if I got a woman in the room, if
I'm cheating. Never once do she say,
"You better not cheat on me. You better
not talk no other woman. You better not.
Never once do she show any bit of
insecurity cuz she know me bumping my
gums online has put me in a prison
of relationships and love and success
and brand and whatever else. And she
knows that if I am stupid enough to go
out here and do what swole buddy did,
it's going to cost me all my integrity,
all my respect, all my supporters. She
knows that unless she is the blame. So
what she just focus on is not being the
blame. But she don't focus on chasing me
and worrying about what I'm doing
because she know my message holds me
accountable. And y'all hold me
accountable because you listening to my
message. And that is different with a
woman giving advice on relationships. So
what you have to realize is men are
peculiar and men want a very specific
type of woman.
And one thing about it is that woman is
feminine. Femininity is
seen before being heard.
That's just one that's just one truth
about it. So a loudmouth woman is going
to struggle getting a man.
And also a man
wants or see
this what you have to remember. And I
done told y'all this a million times. A
man will accept
what you give. So if you want to give
him
head, he's going to accept it. If you
want to cook for him, he's going to
accept it. If you want to sleep with
him, he's going to accept it. Just
because he accepts it doesn't mean he
wants it. And see, this is what I want
you to understand.
You got to determine who you want to
attract.
See, y'all be doing things that attracts
gay men. And y'all be doing things that
attracts feminine men, cheating men,
lying men, weak men, soft men, grown
boys. Y'all be doing those type of
things.
And then you get to a place to where you
like, "Okay,
I'm doing this. is this, but it's not
working and you attracting this type of
man because you don't listen to a real
man. When a real man give you the game,
you don't listen. So, I'm telling you,
we like to work. We want us a woman that
we going to have to work for. We going
to have to push the limits. We going to
have to show up and show out for that.
what we want. We don't want nothing.
See, the thing that what you got to
remember, those of us who done had a lot
of women, done been out there, it's
always been easy. So, nothing about a
easy woman is attractive.
And that's coming from masculine,
confident men. You don't want no weak,
soft, insecure man. So
why do all of this stuff for him that he
going to be clapping up and praising
when the man that's going to be
ambitious and be able to be a provider
and be able to be a leader, he going to
want to know that you worth it. He gonna
want to know that you humble, you kind,
you you say thank you, you show
gratitude, but you not Molly made, you
not Sally slave. And he wants to know
that. He wants to know that you know
yourself, you love yourself, and that
you have a backbone. Point blank,
period. And that's what you got to
realize and understand. So, I'mma tell
y'all like this right here.
You could determine what giving a man
husband benefits are. You know, you you
could determine that.
And I'm going to be honest with you,
it's not even realistic for me to tell
y'all not to have sex until marriage.
No, it's not realistic. It's not common.
Not every man is going to wait. But you
know what gets you that opportunity for
him to wait? You working on you. you
having your 3Bs. When you have your 3Bs,
that buys you more time. A man expects
less from a woman who have her 3Bs.
Point blank period.
He just he expects he expects less from
her because he's looking and he's
saying, "Hey,
she
she got this." You know, she got this,
she got that
and her body is amazing. Her ambition is
amazing. Her mind is amazing.
She has a lot to offer.
So I don't have to
take and
like I I can't expect her to do this
that and the third because she bringing
so much to the table. She bringing so
much to the table. I got to step it up
and I got to meet her and I got to be
bringing to that table. So the fitter
your body is, the clearer your face is,
the better your fashion sense is, the
stronger your ambition is,
the cool, common, collected your your
conversation is, the better your
emotional intelligence is, the more
runway you give yourself, the longer
that man is willing to wait. But if you
come in and you don't have things in
order, he's going to feel like he is the
prize and you got to show up and you got
to perform and you got to audition for
him.
That's human nature. And sometimes you
have to flip the script. So it's like
and then that's what we fail to do as
humans. And so women be getting mad when
I say that. Be like, "Oh, so Tony, so if
I'm ugly, that mean I got to sleep with
them on a f night." You ain't got to do
nothing but stay black and die if you
die. If you if you're black or stay
white and die or stay Hispanic and die,
Asian and die. That's all you got to do.
You ain't got to do that cuz Michael
Jackson changed his race. So you ain't
got to do that [clears throat] if you
don't want to. You ain't got to do
nothing but die one day. So, no, you
ain't got to sleep with him third night,
but he might not stay. He ain't gonna
stay with you if he don't feel you worth
the weight. If he doesn't feel you have
sacrificed and you have put in the work
and done what you need to do, what you
supposed to do, he's not waiting for
you. Point blank period. He's not
waiting for you at all. He gone.
So, the harder you work on you, the more
runway you give yourself. I went and
walked 10,000 steps
Sunday, I think, or Saturday. Then went
and walked another 10,000 on Sunday.
So, I was gone on Monday.
I had to go do an interview
with Big Bank in Atlanta. And
my wife went and did her 10,000 steps by
herself.
She ain't went and did 10,000 steps in a
in a while by herself. But when she seen
her man stepping up, now she going to do
Pilates and all of that and then she'll
come walk a little, you know, walk, but
not no full 10,000 step. But when she
seen her man stepping up and her man
about to get fit, she like, "Hey, let me
kick in high gear." So what you got to
do, flip the on the other, put the shoe
on the other foot. Sometimes you got to
ask yourself as a woman, okay, if you go
get this man with with a pot belly, you
know, he got a pot belly, he got a
receding hairline, he got cuz he ain't
got one of these. He got
my hairline still receding, y'all. So
this the only thing the thing work. So
I'm not stamping this. So save your
money cuz I ain't grow now.
So save your money. I'm just on here. I
just be doing it to do it. So don't even
think some of y'all already ordered it.
Don't order phone tell you to order it
now. Go refund it. You wasting your
money. Telling you now. And so
you come and and let's say the man he 56
or 54
got him a stomach on him. He making
35,000 receding hairline or the went
ball. You're not f to feel like you got
to do cartwheels and somersaults.
You're gonna be like, "This man better
be glad I'm giving him a chance. He
better be glad I'm talking to him
because 99% of women are keep walking on
his behind. So, he better be glad he he
need to cook me a meal." That's how you
going to be thinking and feeling. Now,
you pull up on this man, you got your
man, he's 6'4,
he got a six-pack of abs. He makes six
figures.
So now you like, "Oh, I'mma have to
cook.
I might have to pop pee. I might have to
do this. I might have to do that." Cuz
this man is a catch. He got all of this.
So that's the same way a man look at
women. Not everything could be flipped
like that because we are different
people. We different creatures. But
that's one of those things that can work
like that.
That's one of those things that
it'll work like that.
And so I want you to realize that and
understand that. That is one of those
things
that you could look at that right there
and say, "Okay, now everything else, you
know, it's it's case by case.
If a man sleep with a woman on the first
night is not the same as a woman
sleeping with a man on the first night
just because of societal norms and what
society done put out there. So it's like
yeah on on on the onset yeah it's the
same thing. Both of them sinned both of
them nasty
but society going to treat it different.
One going to be seen as a hero one going
to be seen as a zero. And that's just
the unfortunate truth. It's not
something that I condone, not something
that I like, not something that I
appreciate or respect, but it's the
unfortunate truth. And the only men who
don't care or who don't judge a woman
for sleeping with a man on the first
night is gay men, bisexual men, which a
bisexual man is a gay man. Just using
the term because y'all use the term. So
realize and understand that and get that
in your chest. Get that through your
spirit and keep your head up. And I'mma
keep bringing y'all the real now. I'mma
bring you the real
and make sure y'all check the links in
the description. November 28th, we got
the Purpose Arc Summit. So, come on out.
When you sign up, you'll see the link
for your discounted hotel room. Go
ahead, reserve it. I don't think you
have to pay for hotels rooms in advance.
Let me know if you do so I can add that
little note in there. But it should just
be put a credit card in and reserve it.
And
my sessions are open on my mentor.life,
but it's full price session. And it's
two different. You'll see one hour, one
hour. One is by phone, one is by video.
So you book those. And just forgive me,
it does give you my text, my number that
I coach on. So if you book and the
session hit and you ain't got no call
from me or video if you sign up for the
video then shoot me a text because I
probably didn't check my email. I I it
goes to my email and if I miss it. So
that's what happened today. One of my
clients client had booked the session
with me today and I ain't even know cuz
I hadn't checked my email cuz I've been
on the road. So hey, God bless you. Keep
your head up and shout out to all my
supporters. Tony Gaston Family
Foundation just posted on the community
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program was really single parents
program. So thank y'all so much for your
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