Why Are You Still Single?

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

Education, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ready to challenge the status quo in relationships? Join us for a candid conversation that reimagines love, family, and relationships beyond the traditional norms. Liz and Jamey smash unrealistic relationship ideals and tackle the red-flag culture that may be standing in the way of finding true connections. From co-parenting to open relationships, and finally having the courage to rewrite your own love story no topic is off the table. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion that will inspire you to rethink the possibilities of love and dating in a modern world! Watch this episode on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/wearemanenough Sign up for the Man Enough newsletter to get full video episodes and positive masculinity news every Monday: http://manenough.com/newsletter The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. Timecodes: 00:08 - The patriarchy sets up relationships to fail 04:20 - Why is Liz single? 06:45 - Being single is not a permanent state of being 11:01 - Are modern relationship standards too high? 16:16 - Re-imagining traditional approaches to family planning 22:12 - Rejecting pessimism and fear in love and relationships 25:05 - How to spot a good partner on the first date 27:10 - Could you be in an open relationship? 30:34 - You don’t find your soulmate overnight 34:40 - Co-parenting with love and respect 37:33 - Taking the patriarchy out of our intimate relationships Quotes: “You don't find your soulmate overnight. You work on your soulmate.” - Jamey Heath "We want to advance society, advance humanity. We want to be better versions of ourselves so that our children or our grandchildren and future generations can be a little bit further along than we were." - Jamey Heath “I think that I have an unrealistic ideal of what a happy, healthy relationship is. And that means that you maybe leave relationships earlier than you should.” - Liz Plank “I think any relationship is a success. Even a divorce is a success. You were in a successful relationship for this amount of years. How wonderful.” - Liz Plank Support Man Enough Man Enough Newsletter: https://manenough.com/newsletter Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books Boys Will Be Human book: https://boyswillbehuman.com Follow The Hosts Justin Baldoni https://instagram.com/justinbaldoni https://www.tiktok.com/@justinbaldoni https://facebook.com/justinbaldoni https://twitter.com/justinbaldoni Text Justin: +1 (310) 845-6909 Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ #boys #men #masculinity #dating #redflags #soulmates #single #relationships #parenting #parents #children #freezingeggs #openrelationships #moderndating #masculinity #relationships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up on man enough.
0:02.0	I think patriarchy is the biggest cockblocker to heterosexual relationships.
0:08.0	Truly, because it sets us up to fail and it sets up relationships to be very difficult.
0:15.3	Instead of fighting for this ideal, maybe I can just take a not a bypass, but just let's just do it the non-traditional way.
0:24.0	Being man enough what does that mean?
0:29.0	It's really manly to mess up admit you're wrong and then grow.
0:33.0	I couldn't accept that I was evil,
0:35.0	so maybe I'm broken, but those broken things could be corrected.
0:38.0	Intimacy between a father and a son is me just wanting to like put my head of your lap.
0:43.0	I love you son.
0:45.0	You haven't called me benevolent sexist, but my experience is women are better.
0:49.0	Even if it's a positive, it's still not equality.
0:52.0	I don't blame men for that. I just blame the system. This is man enough
1:02.3	What up, what up?
1:03.0	Welcome back to Man Enough, the Man Enough podcast where we are joined by
1:10.0	Liz Plank and Jamie Heath.
1:12.0	Yeah. And we don't have Justin with us.
1:14.0	You know it's so funny, this podcast was Justin's idea and here we are.
1:17.5	It's the name of his book.
1:18.5	Yeah, we're here and he's at.
1:20.5	Where is he?
1:21.5	For those of you who don't know, I won't go into the whole thing, but Justin is on break right now.
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