Here’s a scenario: You and your partner had a fight or disagreement. You want to talk about it; they don’t. Hmmm. How do you deal?
In this podcast, my wife Ellen and I give you a few tips for you avoidant-types on how to deal with your partner who always wants a connection or wants to talk about it.
Here’s a critical question I ask space-takers to think about:
Does withdrawing relieve my partner or not? In other words, is my space-taking helpful to my partner and good for our relationship?
Listen in as we unpack this question.
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Did you know when males have an emotive experience, two parts of the brain lights up? And when females have an emotive experience, nine parts of the brain light up? You’re probably thinking, why just two parts with men and nine parts with women?
If you’re interested in brain differences that boys and girls experience from the time they start school throughout adulthood, you’ll want to check this out:
This week, New York Times best selling author of "The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men” examines the inner life of boys; their physical, socio-emotional, and neurological development.
Michael believes that to improve male sensitivity in America, parents should adopt bi-strategic and multi-strategic parenting styles and raise boys (and girls) with resiliency, purpose, and doing emotive development that fits their sensitivity.
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What happens when you’re in a relationship with someone who’s dealing with depression and is being distant? Should you stay or should you give them an ultimatum?
In this week’s podcast, that was just one of the questions I answered from one of our listeners' posts in the Relationship School Facebook group.
I covered a lot of ground in the sex and relationships category from polyamorous relationships in the context of post-betrayal to dealing with relationship dissatisfaction. Some pretty intense stuff.
Here’s one of the other questions I answered in this new podcast:
No one talks about the sex slowing down in a long-term relationship. What is healthy and normal and what is not?
If you want to know the answer to this question and more relationship advice, I invite you to listen to my new podcast.
Check it out.
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Somatic Abolitonist, Resmaa Menakem, shares a true story about racial discrimination between the police and his family.
He also challenges the hell out of me.
Man, this was a good one, very intense. I learned a ton.
I continue to learn about how me, as a white heterosexual male, can improve in the area of race, equity and diversity.
This is a pretty charged episode. Trigger warning.
Check it out.
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