Whether you are single, dating, in a relationship, situation,

married, wherever you are on the relationship spectrum,

what most people are saying is that relationships have gotten a lot harder.

Dating has gotten a lot harder.

Maintaining a relationship has gotten a lot harder.

Now, of course, we could point our finger at the dating apps, which certainly aren't helping,

and we could talk about that endlessly. The system that people are operating in, the inflation,

the economy, the court systems, the legality of marriage, all play a role. But in

all those things, behind all those things and in all relationships, there are people.

And that's what I want to talk about today, because I sit in a very unique vantage point.

I work predominantly with men. I run a company called man talks. So I get to hear men's complaints

all the time. I get to hear the situations that men are in. I get to hear the circumstances that men are in.

But I also work with my wife, who's a marriage and family therapist, and we work with a ton of couples.

I also have the unique vantage point of having a lot of women follow me. I know a lot of you

are listening to this right now. I get your messages about the men that you're dating and the

relationships that you have just gone through that have ended, that work rates. I hear about

the divorces and the marriages that failed, the infidelities, the hardship, the hurt,

the attachment issues, et cetera. So I have a very unique vantage point. And after hearing for

the last few years what's been going on, I've tried to disseminate down into one statement,

which is going to piss some of you off, probably both sides of the spectrum, men and women, is probably going to piss

most of you off. But I've tried to disseminate this down to a fundamental truth that I think

is happening for most people. And I think what's happening in modern dating is that women have

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