Stefanos Sifandos: Why We Cheat, The Meaning Of Infidelity And How Our Past Traumas Affect Our Relationships | EP 413

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt constricted by society to have a certain type of relationship? In today’s episode with Stefanos Sifandos, we talk all about sex and relationships. We explore why humans are inclined to cheat, the nature of our communication and whether an ideal style of relationship actually exists. Social constructs can often dictate what we believe to be right, but we don’t always have to follow the norm if it doesn’t work for us. We also discuss the true meaning of infidelity, the key factors to maintaining healthy relationships and how our past traumas can affect how we view ourselves as sexual beings. Stefanos is a trained educator and relationship expert with a background in behavioral science. He is passionate about leading people closer to their highest potential and to each other. Stefanos’ philosophy merges the best of Eastern and Western methodologies to promote spiritual balance and empower people in life and love. From trauma release to navigating the at times murky waters of modern masculinity to helping women understand the men in their lives, he helps people escape negative patterns and cultivate a positive sense of self. Stefanos has also cofounded a world-class coaching and education institute and a global men’s empowerment movement. Stefanos has worked with thousands of men and women from all walks of life; special forces soldiers, Olympic gold medalists, elite fighters, and everyday people have relied on him to restructure and reframe their relationships with themselves and their loved ones. Thank you to our sponsors: Somavedic: Use code ALIGN during checkout for $20 off your purchase at: https://somavedic.com/ Ice Barrel: Use code ALIGN to save $125 at: https://icebarrel.com/ Organifi: Use code ALIGN during checkout to receive a 20% discount at: www.organifi.com/align biOptimizers: Use code ALIGN10 during checkout to save 10% on Magnesium Breakthrough: magbreakthrough.com/alignpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement today's conversation is about relationships and particularly
0:15.8	infidelity within relationships different structures of
0:20.6	relationships all the different ones polyamaryary, polyandary, monogamy, monogamish, and some of the urges
0:29.5	that individual partners may have to reach out for sexual influence or romantic
0:36.9	influence or emotional influence or anything of the sort outside of their primary or perhaps solitary partner.
0:46.2	Why does that happen with such great consistency throughout culture,
0:51.6	across all the cultures is it inherently wrong is it
0:56.0	inherently bad is it a product of some type of evolutionary
1:01.2	mismatch within a new dating paradigm.
1:06.6	It's still on top of old ancestral patterns,
1:18.0	or some combination of all of that or none of that. But this conversation is all about the topic of cheating. I think the world that we live in as a modern human being is can be confusing at times and this conversation hopefully sheds some level of clarity through the wisdom of
1:36.5	Stefanos. I clearly am like a chicken its head caught off running around trying to scrounge up any type of information around statistics or poles or really anything of what the hell's going on in this whole relationship
1:53.6	dating world it is confusing for me at times what is right what is wrong what is
1:58.2	okay what is acceptable what is truth
2:01.1	uh... what is compulsion what is compulsion, what is addiction.
2:04.0	Very interesting stuff.
2:07.0	I'm very grateful for Stefano sharing his time and his wisdom with us today.
2:11.0	I think you guys are going to enjoy it.
2:12.0	I personally do not have a dog in the race, I think is how that phrase goes, dog in the fight, of what the best container of relationship is. I think that there are benefits and
2:27.6	detriments to really all forms and there is self-work and development that abounds within all forms.
2:36.0	And so this was a discussion hopefully as neutral of a discussion as possible to investigate how to make our relationships with ourselves and with other people.
2:46.0	A little bit more coherent, seamless, satisfied, and fulfilled.
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