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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast.

We have a treat today.

We've been talking so much about young people and how there's been a challenge with young people connecting.

And we don't see as many romantic relationships.

So we thought we'd bring on an expert to talk about it.

And we have an expert from IHeart Radio.

She is on IHeart Radio's

K-F-M or K-F-I-A-M-640 in Los Angeles. It is the love and relationship expert, Dr. Wendy Walsh.

Hi. How are you? I'm great. How are you? Good, good, good. Always happy around this time of year to be talking about love because so many people are expecting engagement rings.

Oh, I never even thought about that, but I guess that's true. And I think, actually, I feel like I'm at the point now where I have a lot of my friends who are expecting their children to be getting engaged around this time.

Yep.

But they also, I've heard from so many moms of young men in our area.

I'm in the Midwest.

And moms of young men who say they are struggling to figure out how to connect to women.

So what are your best suggestions for love people or love relationships connection

in young people today? Well, let's set the stage for what's happening culturally,

especially around Gen Z, right? So this is a group of people, young people, who literally

lost three years of social development during the pandemic. When we came

back to the college classroom, I'm a psychology professor, I would put students into discussion

groups, and they couldn't even look each other in the eye or talk to each other. They were just

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