All right, gentlemen, welcome back to the Man Talk Show.

Today, we're talking about why some of you are failing with women and the plague of modern

expectations.

One of the things that's very challenging in modern relationships is that they are hyper-centered

around a woman's expectations and needs.

And for a lot of men, they show up in the relationship with the thing, the sentiment that

they've heard for generations, right, which is happy wife, happy life, the notion of

you might maybe get your needs met on the other

side of making your wife, your girlfriend, your woman happy. And so a lot of men take this

seriously. A lot of men directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, they operate

in the relationship as if the central focus of their

existence is to make their woman happy, to get their girlfriend, whatever they want, to provide

for them, however they want, to make sure that every single thing that she needs is met.

And they defocus or they stop focusing

on what they actually want and need as a man

within the context of the relationship.

And this is plaguing a lot of relationships

in our modern times.

I see this a lot with men where they're living off of scraps, right?

They're living off of scraps in right? They're living off of scraps

in their marriage, in their relationship. And they're not getting their needs met. Their

expectations aren't being fulfilled. Maybe they haven't spoken those things. Maybe they're trying

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