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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to Episode 769. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Dis, as always. Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you for supporting me. And today I want to talk about the bare minimum man. And now I usually wouldn't say men this or women this. It's un-newanced and it's unfair and it's divisive. It's

really not my style. But I will use the archetype of the bare minimum

man for this because I will say I have seen this to be the case with a lot of men. And certainly,

it's not necessarily a like nefarious, evil, manipulative thing that men do. It's just a trend.

It's just a pattern. So let's leave it at that. But it certainly is a trend, a pattern,

that we need to pay attention to, to not allow ourselves to fall into, and to not allow it

in our partners. The bare minimum man is the man who doesn't ask. I'll build on that, but I will say this isn't like a red flag

that like people prepare you for, really. Like women in particular are prepared to spot the red flag,

the guy who interrupts her, who makes everything about him, who isn't paying attention to her.

Like that's, that's an easy red flag.

That is relationship red flag 101. But the guy who is present, who nods along as you talk,

who seems engaged, who listens, who responds appropriately in the moment, and then nothing,

and then nothing, who doesn't ask follow-up questions, who doesn't want to go deeper, who isn't curious.

This is the kind of person who kind of flies under the radar.

And you could date this person for months or for years even without realizing what's going on.

So we need to recognize this as bare minimum behavior.

So we could jump away from it or to talk about or have clarity

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