Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Gross podcast.

This week we're going to be talking about a dynamic that I hear a lot about, this idea of

if you're a powerful, successful woman and you intimidate men, How do you find a relationship, a woman who's

confident in herself, et cetera, et cetera? And I thought, yeah, I hear this all the time. So I brought on a good

friend of mine who just wrote a book recently on that, who of course certainly is a powerful

woman. Now, there's some interesting things that I think created that dynamic,

you know, the patriarchy influence, you know, where women weren't invited to pursue their passions,

their dreams to be powerful and that they needed to be like men in order to be powerful also has an influence there.

Again, I say this with no judgment.

I'm just talking about the things that influence why we might become that way,

the feminist revolution.

And watching as patriarchy and the Divorce Act was inputted, at least in Canada, I know something similar occurred in the United States. inputted at least in Canada.

I know something similar occurred in the United States.

I can't speak to Europe and other parts of the world.

But, you know, as divorce became something that people were actually allowed to do,

that's fucking weird that it wasn't allowed.

You know what I mean?

And like in Canada, you had to get approval from a

provincial body to get divorced before 1967. Then you needed to be separated for three years. And then in

1986, they changed the divorce act that you only needed to be separated for a year. So you saw

massive increases in divorce in those times. But what's interesting is that when we look

relationally, the dynamics that have occurred, you know, it's we watched women not have

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