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Relationship Advice

92: Dividing Housework In A Modern Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Marche is the author of  The Unmade Bed (2017), The Hunger of the Wolf (2015), Love and the Mess We’re In (2013), How Shakespeare Changed Everything (2012), Shining at the Bottom of the Sea (2007) and Raymond and Hannah (2005). He currently writes “A Thousand Words About Our Culture,” a monthly column for Esquire magazine, in addition to opinion pieces for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Salon.com, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. He received a doctorate in Early Modern Drama in 2005 from the University of Toronto. In this episode we discuss relationship topics that include:  Gender norms and how they affect modern relationships. Why housework is where gender politics comes to a head in our lives. The conversation around biological and cultural mechanisms at play in gender roles and relationships. The modern rise of marriage and the great transition culturally. Why women are a driving force in global economics. Why men are doing more housework than ever before. And much more! Sponsors Talkspace: The online therapy company that believes that therapy should be affordable, confidential and convenient. Join over 500,000 people who have used Talkspace for online therapy with their licensed therapist. Get $30 off your first month when you visit Talkspace.com/IDO. Audible: Use the link below, and sign up for a free 30-day trial and one free audiobook download! You will have to enter your CC information, but you can just cancel the trial at the end of the month if you don’t like it and not pay a dime. There are a ton of great relationship audiobooks on Audible.com. Consider downloading The 5 Love Languages for your free download. If you haven’t already subscribed to I Do Podcast and left us a review on iTunes, that helps us a ton as well Thanks! – Chase and Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to. Take me to the plates in the middle of the sun. What's going on on on,

0:27.0

What's going on guys?

0:29.0

Welcome to I do podcast,

0:31.0

where we interview the world's leading relationship, marriage, dating, and self-help

0:35.1

experts.

0:36.1

Whether you're dating, single, married, or struggling in a relationship, you're in the right place.

0:41.3

We're here to help give you the tools to succeed.

0:44.0

And on today's episode, we welcome author and writer Stephen Marsh.

0:51.0

And Stephen has a book that just came out and it's pretty interesting. It's called

0:56.3

The Un Made Bed and Stephen's a bit of a I guess a cultural commentator and the unmade bed is a commentary on the state of the male,

1:12.1

female relationship and it covers everything from marriage to in the workplace and it's an interesting read I got through a little over half of it and we talk about a lot of the themes and topics of the book in today's episode and some of those are how women are the driving force and successful economies and where in countries where women make more those economies

1:38.0

are better and how this all kind of relates to the modern relationship and he talks about how we're in the

1:45.4

middle of a great transition in the male-female relationship in the rise of marriage

1:51.8

in Western societies and how all of these things have in effect on our

1:59.9

relationships because we are a product of the cultures we live in.

2:03.6

So if you're listening to this in most Western cultures,

2:08.7

then this is for you.

2:10.4

If you are listening in maybe a traditional place like, I don't know, a tribe in the Amazon,

2:19.4

you are probably not broadcasting podcast, and so you're not listening to this or if you are you're changing this to find

2:27.2

something else so it's it's more of a commentary on Western cultures but it's really interesting and Stephen has a unique perspective.

2:35.8

He has written for Esquire for the last five years and has pieces in the New York Times,

2:41.2

the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and he is the author of four books.

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