Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greguer from Bear Marriage.com,

where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your

marriage. And if you are watching on YouTube, you know that I am in the second seat because Rebecca is in the first one. I am.

Because this is the second part of our deep dive into For Men Only. Which has been my pet

project for a while. Yes, we started last week as we looked at several of the opening chapters

are For Men Only and how the book by

Shanti and Jeff Felton, which is based on some quite frankly shoddy research done by

by Sean Telfeldon.

There's no one surprised by at this point.

Yes.

Basically told Ben that all you need to do is reassure your wife that you love her and

don't try to fix any problems and everything

will be fine and it never tells men how to actually fix a problem or how to say ownership when

they were the problem yeah it's it's very it's very strange and it convinces it calls women swamp

swamps swamps and and convinces you that men and women are just so totally different that you can never possibly

understand what your spouse is feeling or thinking. And we also talked about the specific ways that it

actually messed up Connor my marriage for the first little bit because he was trying so hard to

follow this book because it said that it was research-based. And then when we stopped following it

in like less than two weeks, all of our marital problems were like pretty much.

Yeah.

And it was really awkward back then because that was back when I was still friends with Shanti.

And so, yeah, it was very awkward.

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