Monogamy vs “I Need Something Different” First Date Standards, Dating to Marry & Real Relationship Talk S1 EP11 Replay

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

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

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Throw back to season 1 ep 11.
In this episode of the 2 Be Better Podcast, Chris and Peaches break down modern dating, monogamy, and why you should never enter a “committed” relationship if you still crave constant novelty and validation from other people. They unpack the difference between hookup culture, serial dating, and actually dating to marry, and they call out the mindset of “I just need something different” for what it is. You’ll hear a raw conversation on monogamy vs polyamory, loyalty, sexual boredom, how to have honest conversations about sex and desire, and why you should not sacrifice your boundaries just to keep a partner who wants multiple sexual partners. They also walk through what healthy first dates should really look like, how to vet someone’s character, red flags like being late, lack of ambition, constant victimhood, and why you should be dating to see if someone belongs in your life at all, not just to sleep with them.

From there, they get into the hard stuff: how to communicate when you’re hurt, how to ask “Do you want to solve or do you want to argue?”, how to use “I” statements without turning them into hidden accusations, and how to stop weaponizing pain in your marriage. They respond to real listener emails on first dates, blended families, stay-at-home motherhood with an overworked night-shift husband, resentment, lack of gratitude, and the brutal reality of poor time management and no boundaries. If you’re looking for straight, no-nonsense relationship advice on healthy communication, dating to marry, masculine and feminine roles, standards, boundaries, and building a real partnership instead of living in drama, this episode will hit hard and give you practical perspective you can use today.

Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only. Opinions helped by our guests may not reflect our own. But we love a good conversation.

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0:00.0	And look how far we've come, all the things we've done, did it all with love,
0:09.0	beauty from the bottom of, all I want is you, you're my favorite view, but that's nothing more.
0:20.0	And we are back.
0:25.0	We're back.
0:25.9	Episode 11 in the new layout.
0:29.3	Three camera angles going, multiple light sources, new couches, bookcases, prints, paint, the whole nine.
0:35.3	We are trying something new, ladies and gentlemen.
0:37.9	We bought all this stuff thinking that this was going to be a super effective, comfy podcast.
0:44.2	Too comfy. Yeah, I'm not sure. You're going to move your mic close to your mouth.
0:48.0	I'm not sure that this is going to work out as I had planned, even though I'm very comfortable now.
0:53.4	There's still a whole lot of growing pains that are going to have to get worked out. We did order other chairs just in case these didn't work, but those won't be here until March, so we're going to have to record over the next few days in these chairs. And by the time the other chairs come, these may be what we're used to recording in because we may have found our groove. So this may be the final form minus the wall behind you
1:11.7	because you need art. Get that figured out. I also don't know how we're going to do live streams.
1:19.2	Play it by ear. Yeah, we're going to have to wing it. I'm going to have to buy a tablet, whether it be
1:23.7	an iPad or a Samsung tablet so that I can actually read emails with you because right now the only thing I can work with is my phone whereas before I had an actual computer at my desk that I could operate and I can't reach any of that from here which means we really need somebody to be able to direct when we're doing these podcasts and until we get to the point where we can pay somebody to be here while we do this that's not really an option we're just fanagling right
1:44.6	and we are we were a two-man show and we're a four-man show now because we have a jj and jennifer helping but like it's still i don't know it's a lot we don't need realistically we don't need them like i could i could do the editing that a j's doing it and make all that work, but it would be, it would be more like
2:00.9	two more days worth of work a week. And the Jennifer helping with the emails is a big deal because
2:06.2	I don't want to read those emails on the podcast and be caught up in some kind of DV situation
2:11.3	or some weird sex scene because of the emails that we get. Like I don't. So, um, so I I don't know I think we have new microphones coming
2:20.0	tomorrow and that'll be the final setup with this until we decide whether or not we're
2:24.3	going to change the chairs um I don't know what all we have today we have I have one question
2:32.2	from TikTok that I screenshot that I would like to discuss I have one bullet point I would like to hit. Okay. Do you want to do that first and then
2:38.3	we'll get into my conversation, then we can do the emails? So I posted a clip from the podcast to my
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