Hello and welcome to the Empower 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 host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is titled, Husbands are Facing this inner challenge and it's affecting marriages.

Now, there are a lot of new listeners, so you might be wondering, well, how do you know what husbands are dealing with?

What is this inner challenge? And how would you know?

Well, we are lucky enough and fortunate enough to talk to couples all day, every day in our private sessions.

And these are good people who work hard, who want the best

for their family, and we just get to see the insider experience of what couples deal with. And in a sense,

like pull up the hood, look beneath the surface as to what is going on. And I'm really excited for Aaron to dive in and even express this because this is something

he really has noticed in men especially, and I think so many of you are going to relate to it.

And a part of that is because I recognize it within myself and my own experience.

So it really resonates when I see or hear this from other men so let me give you the

picture here in personal development I think for a lot of us men we start down the route of the

motivational videos for me on YouTube and they're usually the ones for motivation to work out.

And I've gotten myself back around to that just because I like to change up what I listen to and like how I'm motivated.

And as I was listening to this, you know, this dynamic we're going to talk about today really showed up

in my own experience and as well as with the husbands from the past week now in these

videos the theme is that no one is going to outwork you you're going to grind when people are

sleeping you're going to wake up at 4 a.m. you need to be so good to be undeniable. You're going to prove your haters wrong, anyone that doubts you. And you'll get a lot of audio clips from, say, like, Mike Tyson, or references to Mohammed Ali, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then other just business titans. So this is the message to men and a part of it I know is true

there is this way of being that men need to adopt to face the outside world and

that message really is to be a warrior you know a lot of common messages you hear around this theme also is to be a lion.

Be tough.

Or that lions do not concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.

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