Elizabeth Earnshaw - The Problem With Modern Relationships

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Modern relationships face some pretty unique challenges, and sometimes it seems like those challenges are only growing. Thankfully, there are people out there like Liz Earnshaw! This was such an enjoyable discussion, and we go heavy on modern dating and marriage problems, "pathologizing" your partner, the shifting meaning of things like marriage and partnership, the need for flexibility, even the changes in gender roles. If you're with someone currently, dive in together! Over the last decade, Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT has become one of today’s most trusted relationship teachers. Elizabeth is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Fellow of The American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy. She is the Head Therapist at Actually, where she is working to make relational wellness mainstream & accessible. She also owns A Better Life Therapy in Pennsylvania & New Jersey, where she supports clinicians who are helping couples every day. She trains and supervises therapists as an Approved AAMFT Supervisor. In addition to making couples therapy more accessible, she is the author of “I Want This To Work”. Elizabeth is also the host of Hash it Out on Good Risings where she offers advice to everyday relational conundrums. She is frequently asked to talk about relationships with media outlets like Mind Body Green and The Huffington Post and has been featured on numerous podcasts. Connect with Liz -Website: https://www.elizabethearnshaw.com/ -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizlistens/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lizlistens -Book; I Want This To Work: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating the Most Difficult Relationship Issues We Face in the Modern Age: https://amzn.to/3lh0T7W Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, team, welcome to the man-talk show. I'm Connor Beaton. And joining me today is Liz
0:17.6	Earnshaw. Liz is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an American Association of Marriage and Family
0:24.2	Therapy, clinical fellow, and the founder of a better life therapy.
0:28.4	She's also the author of a book called I Want This to Work, which we mentioned in this episode,
0:34.5	our relationship vice host for IHeart Radio morning show, Good Risings,
0:39.4	and the creator of Liz listens on Instagram, where she shares tips on building functional
0:46.0	relationships. So in this episode, we dive deep into a few subjects. Uh, we talk about the main
0:54.0	challenges in modern relationships, modern dating, modern marriages,
0:58.1	how that's changed over the years and how the narratives behind marriage have also changed.
1:04.3	We talk about how relationships can in some ways be a vehicle for meaning making and the traps of that when we use our relationship
1:14.5	as the primary conduit or primary vehicle of making meaning in our life. Things like codependency
1:22.1	can come out of that. And we talk about tools and resources that modern day relationships need.
1:27.1	What do you actually need within the context of your relationship to allow it to function in a healthy, meaningful way?
1:35.0	We also talk a little bit about gender roles, which is an interesting one as something like 42% of American households now have a the woman as the breadwinner and that's
1:48.1	not my term that's just the term that it's used um which is kind of I mean it seems a little out
1:54.0	it's like we're not literally bringing home the bacon or the bread or whatever other like silly
2:00.8	ass saying that we have i mean it's kind of
2:03.4	it's a really like you know it's funny how we use food this is totally a side bar but it's funny how
2:09.7	we use food uh as a representation for making money right like making cheddar bringing home the bacon
2:15.7	breadwinner uh anyway that's a complete
2:19.1	side tangent that has nothing to do with the episode but we talk about those shifting roles and
2:25.5	how couples can engage in that because it's very common for different power dynamics to be showing up
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