Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast.

We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner.

To communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face.

I'm one of your host, Erin Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's.

This episode is about why you both need to have time with friends outside of the

relationship, but certain types of friends. Yes, and you've heard us before on various episodes

talking about how it's important that you each have some sense of alone time, an individual

fulfillment. And we've alluded to in a couple of episodes

the importance and power of friends, but we want to talk about this specifically. For a couple

of reasons, one being personal and one being more, something we were inspired by, I'll share

the inspired by. So I was hearing an interview with Dr. John Gray. If you're not

familiar with him, he wrote the legendary book. Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. I remember

my mom had that on her bookshelf when I was like 10. So it's been around a long time.

Sorry, of all the things you said, the only thing I could hear was legend, wait for it,

dairy.

It really is.

I mean, so many books have been sold.

But he does a lot of work in terms of like biology and how biology impacts relationships.

And he was reminding me about his work really focusing on how, what he says from his research,

that men biologically need to be around other men to boost their testosterone, which is so

important for men to feel kind of in their power, empowered, healthy, balanced.

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