Men's Basic Complaint in Therapy

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🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.2	Let's open with what I wanted to talk to you about, and that's what therapists tell us
0:34.7	about when men come into therapy and their basic complaint.
0:41.6	It won't surprise anyone.
0:45.5	I liked this one in particular.
0:49.7	Is that?
0:52.6	Yeah.
0:54.1	And all of these, let me see. One's a guy therapist. Two is a guy therapist. One is a female
1:03.5	therapist. Okay. When we focus, when the focus is on the spouses being, the wives being critical rather than
1:13.4	resolving problems, a man might lose track of what makes him lovable. He's constantly
1:18.5	getting criticized by his woman. It leads to a lot of frustration. When a criticism of a husband
1:27.0	becomes prevalent, you ladies better listen to this
1:30.2	because you do this crap all the time. I hear it on the air. You call, you don't want to leave the
1:35.1	guy, and then you give me 15 minutes of 4,000 things you list that you're critical about. Come on.
1:42.1	When criticism of a husband becomes prevalent or a habit in a marriage,
1:47.0	I have seen that even when the husband is willing to change the criticized behavior,
1:53.4	the change is not valued or rewarded or good enough or met with a yeah, but...
2:04.3	Oh, how many of you women immediately recognize yourself he made the changes and you're still bitching at him and you have it's not good enough
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