"Provision Is NOT Just the Man's Job" - Chief Drops Hard Truth on Marriage
6/3/202618 min
Is provision really the man's job? In this episode, a Ghanaian chief reveals why 7 out of 10 men come back broke - and why women handle money better. On this episode of The Unbroken Podcast, host Richard Akita sits down with Nene Tetteh, a chief and a real estate developer, for a brutally honest conversation about money, marriage, and the pressure placed on men to provide. From his unique position as a community leader who hands out money to struggling families almost every day, Nene shares what he's actually witnessed about how men and women handle finances — and the numbers are uncomfortable. They unpack whether "a husband must provide" still holds in the 21st century, the controversial "her money is her money, his money is for the home" mindset, and why so many men tie their entire identity to being the breadwinner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT THE HOST Mr Richard Akita is a multifaceted relationship and life coach, author, entrepreneur, and corporate trainer with over 30–35 years of experience in management and personal development. IG: https://www.instagram.com/akitarichard/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 ABOUT UNBROKEN PODCAST Unbroken Podcast is where stories meet truth. Hosted by Richard Akita, the show brings together thinkers, builders, healers, and disruptors to have the conversations most people are afraid to have — about love, faith, identity, money, family, and the journey to becoming whole. Welcome to the new home of unfiltered wisdom. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next episode 👍 LIKE if this conversation challenged you 💬 COMMENT — Do you agree with Dr. Kelly? Tell us your take 📤 SHARE with someone who NEEDS to hear this before they say "I do""
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Richard Akita· Host0:29
The idea of the man being the provider, where does it originate from?
Nene Mankralo Tete Kojo· Guest0:34
If I want to be blunt, it shifted from the man providing everything. The men are just not responsible. It's not about providing, but they are not responsible. They leave everything for the woman to do.
Richard Akita· Host0:46
I've had challenges with the phrase, ladies say that their money is their money. The man's money is for the home.
Nene Mankralo Tete Kojo· Guest0:52
It depends on the upbringing. Because I remember when I was getting married, the advice that was said in the open is, "When you get money, you have to bring it home."
Richard Akita· Host1:00
Okay.
Nene Mankralo Tete Kojo· Guest1:01
"When there's any debt, your husband is there to take care of it."
Richard Akita· Host1:04
Okay.
Nene Mankralo Tete Kojo· Guest1:07
Women keep money better than men.
Richard Akita· Host1:11
Amen.
Nene Mankralo Tete Kojo· Guest1:11
Oh, yeah. If you take 10 women, you take 10 men, maybe two women might come back full, but maybe seven men will come full.
Richard Akita· Host1:19
Wow.
Nene Mankralo Tete Kojo· Guest1:20
Oh, yeah. Because he did not build on the money. The man will take the money. He gets out of your house, and he sees a girl maybe he's been chasing for long and give the girl [popping sound] five hundred from the money.