SC 136 - Why Self Awareness & Digging Into Your Past Helps You Get A Great Relationship - Alexandra Solomon

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A major shift is happening with the way we educate young adults about relationships and sex. Despite what we hear in the media about the 'hookup culture,' the majority of young adults are very interested in learning about relationships and long-term partnerships.

Alexandra Solomon is paving the way in the academic world, educating both students and adults in the all-important long-term relationship game. If you're a parent or a teacher, this is a great episode to listen to. You'll get a sense of what the important topics, conversations and areas that young adults are wanting to know about when it comes to relationships.

SHOWNOTES

Alexandra's story [3:00]
Exploring the lessons you learned in childhood [13:00]
How to talk to students about sex and relationships [18:00]
Teaching young adults to shift from 'performance-based' sex to connection-based sex [20:00]

Transcript

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0:00.0	There's plenty of days where I feel like I wake up in the morning.
0:01.9	I'm like, okay, so who am I going to disappoint today?
0:04.3	Am I going to fall?
0:06.7	Yeah.
0:07.7	I'll just say you're going to play out. the Hello friend welcome back to the relationship school's Smart Couple Podcast, where we get into it around
0:38.0	intimacy, partnership, monogamy, marriage, and anything that smells like long-term relationships, that's where we go, right?
0:49.8	And we teach you little by little inch by inch and guest by guest how to make a few tweaks and adjustments to your partnership future partnerships so that you can have a good one and that you can have a good time.
1:06.0	Life's hard enough. If you have a shitty or a struggling or flaily relationship, it just adds more stress on your pile and your plate.
1:17.0	So my job is to try to help you get educated on how relationships actually work so that you can enjoy yourself, you know?
1:25.0	I really love being married.
1:30.0	I do.
1:31.0	I think marriage is unbelievable as a path and as a concept because I've my wife and
1:40.0	I have defined it for ourselves and made it something that works for us.
1:45.7	And I was anti-marriage, as you know.
1:48.4	I could care less about marriage.
1:50.3	I judged everybody that was married. So I've come a long way guys.
1:55.0	Right.
1:58.0	Hey, heads up.
1:59.0	The Smart Couple Quote Book
2:01.0	will be coming out later this year. That's all I'm going to say.
2:07.0	Stay tuned. Yep. Looking forward to it. Much more to come there.
2:12.7	As you know, I'm on a mission to teach the world
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