So have you been tuning into my show lately and listening to my content, whether it's on my

podcast or on my YouTube channel, you probably will have noticed I've been talking about

relationships a lot lately.

And a buddy of mine and I were having a conversation the other day and he said, you know,

why are you talking so much about relationships?

And I said, well, because relationships are an integral part of our life, you know, whether we like it or not.

Relationships are absolutely paramount to our existence.

And if you want to have a joyous life, unless you're going to live a monastic life, right, unless you're going to be a monk, one of the things that we know about human beings is that the quality of your relationships

determines the quality of your life. It determines the quality of your health,

oftentimes, the quality of your happiness, the quality of the longevity of your life.

And so understanding how we do relationships is incredibly important. And he said, well, what do you think is one of the greatest lessons that we as men need to learn within the context of relationships? Because we were talking about how many men have sort of been checking out from relationships, you know, that are just like screw modern dating. It's garbage and, you know,

dating apps are nonsense. And, you know, I see your comments on my YouTube videos. I read the messages

that you send me on Instagram. And so I get that a lot of you are really fed up with relationships,

you know, like somebody the other day said, commented on one of my YouTube videos and said, like, you know, marriage in 2022 equals being a chump, right? Which I got a good kick out of because I'm married. So I was like, I don't know if you're just like shots fired at me or I don't know. But it was it was pretty funny. But it gave me a good sense of like how frustrated some people are with marriage,

with dating, with relationships. And so as my buddy and I are talking, he said, you know,

what do you think that we need to know in order to elevate our relationship? You know,

how do we as men improve not just our relationship, but ourselves in our relationship?

I said, you know, I think we often underestimate the power and the potency of being able to have

hard conversations. Because those hard conversations, you know, you look at somebody like

Jordan Peterson, whether you like him or not, right? You might hate him, you might despise his ideology, his rhetoric, what he speaks about. But you look at somebody

like him and he has hard conversations nonstop constantly. You know, there's a man who is engaging

in hard conversations constantly. And it doesn't mean that he's always right, but it certainly has brought a certain

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