Hey welcome back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joe Mark Witt and I'm

Antonio Dodge today we're talking about the subject of relationships and disagreements in relationships. It's kind of an old adage.

You know, relationship therapists and relationship counselors will often tell you that the three things

people fight about the most are sex, money, and family.

And when we say family, we could mean anything from child rearing to how to get along with the

in-laws, which house you're going to spend the holidays at,

this, you know, which in-laws house you can, but it's all these things that are

disagreements for people. Traditionally, we've heard of this and you might have

had some of this come up in your romantic relationship, some of these topics on sex, money, and family.

And Tony and I were sitting here saying,

why is it that this is a recurring theme in relationship?

Why are people having some struggle in these areas? And just

like everything that we approach your personality hacker, we love models and

frameworks. So we went on a hunt to find a framework and a model that would help us reverse engineer what's happening here and potentially find some solutions, some leverage points, some solutions for personal growth and some ways we can start looking at relationship

through the lens of this model and framework we're going to talk about today and

the model and framework we're going to talk about today is from Abraham Maslow and it's a classic if you've been in you know psychology

101 in college or something you probably were exposed to Maslow's hierarchy of

needs. I'm gonna let Antonia explain the model and then we're going to discuss it because we feel like there's some goal here to mine on how it can apply to relationship.

Yeah, I think with it when it comes to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we oftentimes, if we're familiar with this model, we oftentimes see it as a lifelong progression, or at least that's how it was originally explained to me as if it's you know this is a

lifelong achievement to go from the bottom tier all the way to the top tier. And as we talk about this model, I'd like to say that we take the

approach that it's not a lifelong progression. These are our basic

fundamental human needs and we come in and out of them all the time.

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