100. Suzanne answers listener emails

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE:

4:20 Suzanne addresses a question about the role social media plays in relationships, with young people and the expectations social media creates

7:15 When the people you surround yourself with are pro-marriage, your takeaway about marriage and relationships will be more positive

9:25 The only solution is to make our own “little world” work and then pass along the correct messaging to our children

12:30 The only way to combat the messages on social media is parenting

14:25 Can men and women be “just friends”?

16:15 It is extremely difficult for a man to be friend with a woman with whom he is not having sex

18:34 Suzanne answers a question about women getting “bored” in marriage?

19:50 Men are more simple in their needs and desires

20:30 Women need to deal with their own boredom and address it

23:10 Suzanne addresses and email from a listener about women leading the charge in divorce, the role the culture plays in this, and why many young women are branding their husbands as “mean” and “controlling”

25:00 Oftentimes, a man's behavior is a reaction to his wife actions and behavior

26:10 It’s easy to mislabel the behavior of men

27:25 Women are typically more emotionally abusive than men are

28:25 A listener describes a date he went on where he introduced Suzanne’s content, and she reacted negatively

30:20 Can you make your husband “grow up”?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Kelsey, producer of the Suzanne Venker Show.
0:04.1	I'm just jumping on here real quick to congratulate Suzanne on her 100th episode of her podcast.
0:10.9	I'd also like to thank all of you for the support.
0:13.5	Your listenership motivates Suzanne to continue to produce this show, and we can't do it without your help.
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0:26.4	When you sign up, you get freebies and we're actually going to start releasing the show
0:30.4	a few days earlier on her page so you guys get to hear it first for being a subscriber.
0:36.8	Again, thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
0:39.9	This will surprise no one who listens to this show, but America is single. It's divorced,
0:47.5	undercommitted, and hopelessly out of touch with how to build a relationship that lasts.
0:52.5	Women in particular are groomed for a life centered on career and on being fiercely independent,
0:57.5	as though marriage and family were a nice idea or a possible accompaniment to an otherwise
1:02.8	satisfying life.
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1:24.9	men, sex, love, marriage, work, and family.
1:30.1	Modern women don't need any more help in the professional sphere.
1:33.6	They have that in spades.
1:35.7	What they don't have is guidance in love and life.
1:40.3	How to get hitched is not about finding a husband per se, but about how to map out a life that
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