177: Stop Being Low Maintenance. It’s Making You Easy to Ignore.

177: Stop Being Low Maintenance. It’s Making You Easy to Ignore.

August 9, 2026 · 22 min · Episode 177

About this episode

Margarita Nazarenko discusses the importance of being high maintenance and knowing one's own needs in relationships.

Watch Unbothered 3 Day Intensive Here You have been trying so hard to be easy. Easy going. Easy to love. No requirements. No fuss. And yet here you are. In this episode Margarita makes the full case for being high maintenance and why the women who know what they want, ask for it unapologetically, and refuse to shrink themselves are the ones who get everything. In this episode: 1. High maintenance is just a person who knows themselves 2. We are taught as little girls that being easy is rewarded 3. Low maintenance often becomes emotional dishonesty 4. How can a man meet the needs he does not know exist 5. Stop confusing standards with entitlement 6. The psychology of self silencing and why it kills relationships 7. Your needs are not problems, they are preferences 8. The fear of being high maintenance comes from a scarcity mindset 9. The healthiest women are actually quite specific 10. Stop trying to be easy to love because it does not exist If you have been making yourself small so people will like you more, pretending to be fine when you are not, or following him around and forgetting to have preferences of your own, this one is for you. Welcome to the high maintenance club…

More episodes of BEING HER with Margarita Nazarenko

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the BEING HER with Margarita Nazarenko podcast page.