26 min
3. Female and Male Friendships - Real or Imagined? The "All Things Uncomfortable" Podcast
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- Mental Health
In this day and age of social media, gender norms being overturned and shifting expectations in social interactions, is it still possible to have genuine male and female friendships? What makes these relationships last, and are they essential?
Join Marc and me as we explore this juicy subject!
0.00 Intro to the subject of male and female friendships
0.40 Key challenges facing men and women in maintaining platonic relationships
2.29 How social media influences our dating habits
3.13 What make dating meaningful?
4:18 What does a healthy male and female friendship look like?
6:03 What are the grey areas that come up in male-female friendships?
13:06 How do gender dynamics play out in male-female friendships
14:50 Do gender dynamics apply in dating?
15:52 Differences in biological drives between men and women
16:52 Do women want to be pursued in a dating relationship?
17:32 Is it unromantic to ‘talk things out’?
20:14 How do you initiate "the talk" in a relationship?
21:50 Knowing what you want in a relationship and drawing the appropriate boundaries
22:39 Setting boundaries through explicit communication
23:27 Ninja boundaries
25:23 Wrap up and intro to the next "All Things Uncomfortable"subject and amazing guest speaker
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creaturae/message
In this day and age of social media, gender norms being overturned and shifting expectations in social interactions, is it still possible to have genuine male and female friendships? What makes these relationships last, and are they essential?
Join Marc and me as we explore this juicy subject!
0.00 Intro to the subject of male and female friendships
0.40 Key challenges facing men and women in maintaining platonic relationships
2.29 How social media influences our dating habits
3.13 What make dating meaningful?
4:18 What does a healthy male and female friendship look like?
6:03 What are the grey areas that come up in male-female friendships?
13:06 How do gender dynamics play out in male-female friendships
14:50 Do gender dynamics apply in dating?
15:52 Differences in biological drives between men and women
16:52 Do women want to be pursued in a dating relationship?
17:32 Is it unromantic to ‘talk things out’?
20:14 How do you initiate "the talk" in a relationship?
21:50 Knowing what you want in a relationship and drawing the appropriate boundaries
22:39 Setting boundaries through explicit communication
23:27 Ninja boundaries
25:23 Wrap up and intro to the next "All Things Uncomfortable"subject and amazing guest speaker
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creaturae/message
26 min