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The Problem With...

The Problem With Being Single: Sadia Khan

The Problem With...

James Smith

Society & Culture

4.99.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Welcome to "The Problem With" where each week we look into a problem to get a better understanding of it. This podcast has no sponsors, only my businesses and investments, please check out the links below. 📍I'm on a mission to help men check their levels of Testosterone, more info here: https://www.manual.co/smith 👁Please check out and try Neutonic here: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith  💪For a free trial of my online personal training app go here: https://www.affordableonlinecoaching.com 💰I help small businesses make money online: https://www.jamessmith.business Psychologist and relationship coach Sadia Khan joins James Smith to unpack the problem with dating apps, modern relationships, and the illusion of infinite choice. Together they explore why technology has made commitment harder, attraction more confusing and why everyone - men and women alike - are struggling to connect in an age of endless swiping. Sadia reveals the psychology behind sex appeal, status and loyalty, explaining how dopamine, dating culture and false advice online are reshaping human relationships. From incel culture and OnlyFans to the fear of rejection and emotional detachment, this is a raw, unfiltered conversation about what’s gone wrong with love… and how to fix it. She explains: ◼️ Why dating apps destroy genuine connection ◼️ How “too many options” kills commitment ◼️ The truth about sex appeal and attraction ◼️ Why men and women misunderstand each other online ◼️ The rise of transactional relationships in the digital age 00:00 – The Problem With People Being Single 01:48 – Three Main Problems: Options, Bad Advice & Monogamy 03:28 – Dating Apps: The Illusion of Choice 05:07 – Genetics, Status & What Women Actually Want 08:08 – The Secret Ingredient: Sex Appeal 11:19 – The Three A's: Attraction, Admiration, Adoration 13:32 – Women and Lust: The Sex Response 16:13 – Sexual Dominance vs Sexual Submission 19:30 – Anxiety Kills Sex Appeal 21:11 – OnlyFans: Manipulating Vulnerable Men 24:40 – Sex Workers and Materialistic Values 28:41 – Masturbation in Healthy Relationships 31:39 – The Sex Toy Epidemic 34:36 – Low Testosterone Nearly Ruined My Relationship 38:29 – Stress, Overtraining & Catastrophic Thinking 41:44 – Natural Ways to Boost Testosterone 44:13 – Why Genetics Matter: The TRT Debate 46:17 – Fat Acceptance vs Reality 49:38 – Why Staying Together Requires No Alternatives 51:14 – Two Types of Men: Loyal to the Woman vs Loyal to the Wife 52:35 – The Dubai Dating Scene Explained 55:34 – Why Russian Women Dominate Men in Dubai 58:38 – Escort Culture & Naive Men 1:01:12 – Corrupt Women vs Good Women 1:04:20 – The Danger of Being 39 and Single 1:08:05 – Four Things to Look For Before Having Kids 1:11:49 – Prenups: A Revealer of Character 1:15:12 – Why Your Partner Needs Financial Independence 1:18:05 – AI Relationships: Glamorizing Loneliness 1:19:22 – New Book: The 10 Red Flags 1:20:56 – Closing RemarksClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you deprive the partner of intimacy, either he's going to porn or she's going to toys,

0:04.0

how dare you be shocked that they're going to cheat? What else are they going to do? And I know that sounds terrible and people get annoyed by that. They're like, yeah, but you can just leave, but no, sometimes you have kids, sometimes you have a mortgage, sometimes you love your partners, because I'll have men that watch porn rather than touch their wives. And then when she cheats, they were all upset about it. it and I don't know tell me what your mind was telling you.

0:20.0

Sadia Khan is a relationship coach.

0:22.0

She helps people navigate the complexities of modern She cheats, they were all upset about it. And I'm like, tell me what your mind was telling you. Sadia Khan is a relationship coach.

0:22.1

She helps people navigate the complexities of modern relationships.

0:26.1

In this episode, she and James discuss how to gain sex appeal, dating red flags, and...

0:31.6

What is the problem with people being single?

0:34.1

Dating is the absolute easiest for corrupt men and women and the hardest for good

0:38.2

people. And what I mean by that is corrupt women, for example, women that are happily sleep

0:42.3

and married men, who sell their body online, who will make her an only fan. She gets this life

0:46.5

with zero heartbreak, because she doesn't even care about the guys, gets her travel the world

0:49.8

and gets constantly rewarded for her poor behavior. Whereas a good, loyal woman is usually stuck at home, worrying where he is, worrying what he's up to. Both of them might end up childless and divorced, but one of them's got a G-Wagon and an apartment, and the other one's got debt and sadness. There's no reward for being good anymore. Similarly, with good men, they get overlooked by the men that are actually more dominant, the one that have more options. So unfortunately, the dating for is designed to reward the people that are the least caring.

1:21.5

Chris Williams said that I was a podcast failure and that I was never going to be as good at him

1:25.1

and that I should never start a podcast ever again unless I promoted our new Tricant products. So I'm keeping my end of the deal. Chris, I'd be happy. Please head to Newtonic.com. The products are really good. So find out for yourself. Head to Newtonic.com now. Bye-bye. What is the problem with people being single? I would say currently there's probably three main problems with being single and they're probably divide into three categories. The first one is there's a whole illusion of options that everybody

1:48.2

has, whether it's through Instagram, DMs or if it's through dating apps. People assume that

1:54.5

they've got a whole batch of people to choose from way more than they actually do because they just

1:58.2

see alternatives rather than realizing whether the quality of the alternatives even exist. So I'd say the first thing is too many alternatives in their mind. The second thing I would say is the saturation of poor advice that they're getting online. If you're single, you are going to be bombarded. Your algorithm kind of knows your loneliness and will then bombard you with either how to not settle, make sure you get the best kind of man, make sure you don't go 50-50, or if you're a man, it will show you beautiful, beautiful girls and all these sexy women. So you're thinking, why would I ever want to be with one woman? There's so many sexy girls out there. And I would say that the third thing is, so you've got those kind of ideas, advice. And the final thing is the difficulty with being monogamous from now on. I think the days of where you realize that monogamy is actually really healthy for both of you. And if you don't want to be monogamous with that same person, no problem, you can move on. But the problem is that everybody has started practicing the art of polygamy before marriage.

2:53.5

So they've gone on multiple dates with people at the same time.

2:55.1

They've slept with so many people at the same time.

2:59.2

They've kind of dissociated sex with commitment so much that then getting out of the habit of commitment

3:02.0

and then trying to look for commitment

3:03.6

while you don't create the habits beforehand

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