Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship

advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team

no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman, and will be your

solo host for this episode, as if you've been following along last week, Jocelyn did an episode about three

challenges that women are dealing with in marriage right now. And so this week is about, as you can

imagine, three challenges that men are dealing with in marriage right now. And I wanted to cover

this one myself. You know, Jocelyn did such a great job covering the challenges that women are going through.

And this week, I wanted to really talk about the challenges in a different way than you might be

anticipating that are going on for men right now. Now, what do I mean by this? And I'm jumping right in

here. So this is going to be a great episode. You know, challenges can be seen as outside circumstances

or situations that are not going your way. And that's typically how challenges are thought about

are approached in trying to get to a

resolution or a solution.

And a lot of times, you may have heard this phrase, by the way, that you're never upset

for the reason you think you are.

And raise your hand, unless you're driving, if you have heard that saying before.

And it is so true because when you're facing a challenge as I mentioned it's a situation that's not going your way

then that's what you deal with but the underlying real source of the challenge has a lot more

to do with an internal conflict or a misalignment

from something that you, and I am talking to the men here today, and if you're a female listening,

then it's a great insight to your partner, but it's a misalignment of something that you value.

Now, we could go deeper into this maybe on another session, but it's closely related to you as a male

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