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- 0:00Speaker 1: Coming up on Relatables, But right now, I think you've
- 0:02Speaker 1: got to shoot your shot and back yourself. Man. I
- 0:05Speaker 1: remember I was a young, seventeen eighteen year old kid.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I thought I was ugly, skinny, tall, like I didn't
- 0:09Speaker 1: have anything going for me. But I had a few things,
- 0:12Speaker 1: and I just didn't see him. Everyone has a few
- 0:14Speaker 1: things going for him, you just can't see him. When
- 0:15Speaker 1: you're that young, going through adolescence and puberty, you just
- 0:18Speaker 1: nitpicky of all the most little things when in reality,
- 0:21Speaker 1: I bet you got the fact that she's friends of you.
- 0:23Speaker 1: You're making her laugh. Like, if you're making her laugh, man,
- 0:25Speaker 1: that could be all you need.
- 0:37Speaker 2: The Relatables podcast is hosted by myself, Jake Craig AKAA Daddy,
- 0:42Speaker 2: and my partner in crime Clarke aka Mmy. Keeping it
- 0:46Speaker 2: simple today, guys, I'm not in the mood.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Why aren't you in the mood?
- 0:49Speaker 2: Jay? Because I'm strrassic as you should be.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Everybody. If you're tuning in for the first time in
- 0:55Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, you're gonna have to go back
- 0:56Speaker 1: and listen to Monday's episode because we are to find
- 1:00Speaker 1: out the results of the Great Mustache.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Battle for you just quick backstory a little bit. Yeah,
- 1:07Speaker 2: go okay, I've been growing to mustache. She has everyone
- 1:10Speaker 2: knows personality. I'm sure you've noticed. If you everyone noticed.
- 1:16Speaker 2: And so I was, uh, we already got back from
- 1:19Speaker 2: ballet first, and I was growing it like when when
- 1:21Speaker 2: Oddie left is when I stopped shaving, and then when
- 1:23Speaker 2: he got back, I had a little mustache right first
- 1:25Speaker 2: time back recording. He's like, oh no, no, it actually doesn't
- 1:27Speaker 2: look like that bad, Like it looks all right, but
- 1:28Speaker 2: it's just a bit uneven. I was like, yeah, I
- 1:30Speaker 2: need to learn how to trim it. On the phone
- 1:32Speaker 2: and my girlfriend that night and I was like, I
- 1:34Speaker 2: think she must have asked, what did Doddy think. I said, oh,
- 1:36Speaker 2: he actually liked it, but he said, just need some
- 1:38Speaker 2: good trimming.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Uneven.
- 1:40Speaker 2: She goes, oh, I can help. I'm a pro. I
- 1:44Speaker 2: would also like to add on the phone when we
- 1:47Speaker 2: were in Melbourney, I was on the phone to her
- 1:50Speaker 2: and she goes, I listened to the podcast and I
- 1:52Speaker 2: have a gripe.
- 1:53Speaker 1: What's a gripe? She says.
- 1:54Speaker 2: I was like, I think there was some misinformation spread.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Oh right, she seems to think that on the phone,
- 1:59Speaker 2: she didn't say she was a pro.
- 2:01Speaker 1: She said she's had experience.
- 2:03Speaker 2: She said, And I was like, she she seems to
- 2:06Speaker 2: think that she said that. All she said was I'll like,
- 2:10Speaker 2: I'll do it for you. And I said to now,
- 2:14Speaker 2: and I was like, I was like, I know myself
- 2:17Speaker 2: pretty well.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Yeah, she's gaslight again, I.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Know myself pretty well. And like, initially I was kind
- 2:22Speaker 2: of like, oh, sorry, like I didn't know I lied,
- 2:24Speaker 2: Like I genuinely thought you said that.
- 2:25Speaker 1: I wouldn't have just made that up.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Like I was apologized. And then I think I kind
- 2:29Speaker 2: of was like, well, wait, wait, you know I remember
- 2:34Speaker 2: this pretty well, Like I don't think I would have said,
- 2:37Speaker 2: why would you shave it if you hadn't said I
- 2:40Speaker 2: have experience or I'm a pro. And then she started laughing.
- 2:44Speaker 2: She started laughing, and I was like, you know, I'm right,
- 2:49Speaker 2: So I still stand by what I said.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Could that be alluding to the fact that she's not
- 2:54Speaker 1: confident in your mustache? Oh shit, I don't know she's
- 2:58Speaker 1: playing games right now, but anyway, right now, anyways, right now, guys,
- 3:03Speaker 1: she takes coffin. He's that nervous.
- 3:06Speaker 2: I think I have a bit of a pastroom.
- 3:09Speaker 1: I'm about to put the mustaches on the screen for
- 3:12Speaker 1: any visual watch watches, and if you're a listener, will
- 3:16Speaker 1: do our best to describe it. And we're also going
- 3:18Speaker 1: to put on the screen in our studio. So, Jake,
- 3:20Speaker 1: are you ready? I am going to close my eyes.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Here we go. As you can see, the photos are.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Up, I've still got my eyes closed. Open your eyes.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Oh what do you think?
- 3:33Speaker 2: I don't think. I'm not as upset as I thought
- 3:35Speaker 2: I was going to be.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Are you sure?
- 3:38Speaker 2: I got to say, if Beth did that trim job
- 3:42Speaker 2: on him, she does do a good job. Okay, close
- 3:49Speaker 2: see mine up close. I could use a trip, I
- 3:52Speaker 2: could use a shaper.
- 3:53Speaker 1: How do you feel right now?
- 3:54Speaker 2: Mm? I don't feel terrible. I actually don't feel all
- 3:59Speaker 2: that terrible. Okay, I do have butthole lips. I need
- 4:02Speaker 2: to put some chapstick on. Well.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Sorry to inform you, but this has all been a
- 4:08Speaker 1: little ploy mate. That's not her ex so far. That's
- 4:11Speaker 1: Italian batch mate, you idiot.
- 4:14Speaker 2: I was gonna say. I was like, wait, she dates
- 4:16Speaker 2: guys with good jaws.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Fuck, So don't get too confident yet, I'm drawing it out.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Close your eyes again.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Fuck like that must batch that I was just looking at,
- 4:30Speaker 2: I think is a bit better than mine. Oh no,
- 4:33Speaker 2: oh no, what if this is fucking amazing?
- 4:37Speaker 1: Fuck? All right, everybody in the background. It was very
- 4:40Speaker 1: hard to find a photo of Jake's girl for friends X. Yes,
- 4:46Speaker 1: but we've done good, We've done our best. Okay, okay,
- 4:48Speaker 1: here we go. Open your eyes, Jake.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Oh, I'm cheering. I'm cheering. I am not unhappy at all.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So everybody knows what Jake's mustache looks like. Yeah, but
- 5:01Speaker 1: Jake's girlfriend's X is very seedy. Okay, there's a part
- 5:06Speaker 1: of the middle. It's a lot longer. I'm gonna say, Jake,
- 5:09Speaker 1: I think I've got him. I think you win.
- 5:10Speaker 2: You know, okay, you won't know. What's funny is where
- 5:13Speaker 2: I lack is the middle. Where he lacks more is
- 5:16Speaker 2: the middle, and his is really long and like looks
- 5:20Speaker 2: like you're almost curl it. You know what's funny, as
- 5:22Speaker 2: Beth was like, don't let yours grow long on the sides? Why?
- 5:30Speaker 2: How funny? You know it's so funny is just before
- 5:34Speaker 2: when I was looking at the photo of Italian backs,
- 5:36Speaker 2: thinking that was I was like, I'm jealous of you.
- 5:38Speaker 2: I'm jealous of his lips. Say, I didn't give a
- 5:40Speaker 2: fuck about the mustache. I was like, I'm jealous of you.
- 5:42Speaker 1: He's a good looking man. And I zoomed in on
- 5:45Speaker 1: the X as well, just to do your favor. You've
- 5:47Speaker 1: got nothing to worry about. Man, Oh my.
- 5:53Speaker 2: God, this is so fucking funny.
- 5:54Speaker 1: So now we know you don't have to shave your mustach.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Jake, he's got nice teeth. He's not over analyzing that.
- 6:01Speaker 1: He's got my team.
- 6:02Speaker 2: I'm just making sure I'm better than I'm just comparing
- 6:04Speaker 2: myself to her.
- 6:06Speaker 1: What do we say? In the last episode, it was something.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Like, because there was a dilmary about comparing yourself.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Yeah, and then spit she's with you for a week.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Yeah, Beth is with me for a reason.
- 6:18Speaker 1: She's not comparing me to her ex. She wanted to
- 6:23Speaker 1: be with him, she would be with him. But it
- 6:26Speaker 1: looks like the mustache is stoned.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Gosh, it's such a good day to be alive. Let's
- 6:31Speaker 2: get that shot screen.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Al right. Everybody up next is dilemmas. You know what
- 6:43Speaker 1: to do. There's going to be a link in the
- 6:45Speaker 1: description of this episode, or go to Instagram scroll to
- 6:47Speaker 1: the bottom of our linked in bio and says dilemmas,
- 6:51Speaker 1: I think this one is good, Jake, because I think
- 6:54Speaker 1: this podcast is really good because it gives an idea
- 6:56Speaker 1: of how men think about women, or how we think
- 6:59Speaker 1: about women. And this is how a young guy thinks
- 7:02Speaker 1: about his crush and oh, what's funny? Okay, and I reckon,
- 7:07Speaker 1: we can help him out, and this is so relatable
- 7:09Speaker 1: for any young dudes listening. Okay, okay, okay, okay, He says,
- 7:13Speaker 1: I know the prettiest girl I've ever laid my eyes on.
- 7:16Speaker 1: We're in high school and talk every lunch. We also
- 7:19Speaker 1: have a class together. Not only is she pretty, but
- 7:21Speaker 1: she's funny, smart, mature, easy to talk to, and a
- 7:25Speaker 1: real one. She doesn't have many friends. Somehow we put
- 7:29Speaker 1: the same effort into communicate and she's not dry texting
- 7:32Speaker 1: at all. She lasted my jokes in brackets. I've even
- 7:36Speaker 1: had her eyes rolling back of her head and brackets.
- 7:40Speaker 1: That's like obviously a big bit of laughing.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, don't get too dirty.
- 7:45Speaker 1: I've complimented her before and she seems genuinely grateful. All
- 7:49Speaker 1: this aside, I'm getting friend vibes and I think she
- 7:52Speaker 1: is too pretty, sure she has high standards and mentioned
- 7:55Speaker 1: a guy she thought was hot when we were first talking.
- 7:58Speaker 1: I'm a pretty mediocre looking and I think I've never
- 8:01Speaker 1: caught her checking me out, but who knows. To be clear,
- 8:04Speaker 1: I value her friendship a lot. I would rather stay
- 8:07Speaker 1: friends than try to get with her, than have nothing.
- 8:09Speaker 1: My dilemma is when I think of getting with anyone else,
- 8:12Speaker 1: I can't stand a thought of her liking me all along.
- 8:16Speaker 1: My gut says she's looking for a friend. But what
- 8:19Speaker 1: if I lost the chance with such a cool, beautiful person.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Ah, Man, that sucks.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I know. I was thinking, like, obviously, I reckon. He
- 8:30Speaker 1: can't admit how much he likes it, and he's not
- 8:32Speaker 1: really and he's not confident in himself like any like
- 8:36Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen year old boy.
- 8:37Speaker 2: But he said to himself, he's like, if I was
- 8:39Speaker 2: to go for another girl and then I found out
- 8:40Speaker 2: that she liked me all along, I'd be lived.
- 8:42Speaker 1: And he'd rather stay friends than lose her altogether, which
- 8:46Speaker 1: is tough. So how can we help this man out?
- 8:49Speaker 1: Do you reckon? It's worth finding out?
- 8:50Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I actually think I might have
- 8:52Speaker 2: experience in this really so so when I was in
- 8:58Speaker 2: I could tell a story right still, story right now,
- 9:03Speaker 2: and I'll tell you okay, fuck it. When I was
- 9:07Speaker 2: in year six, yeah six, you know, yeah, started started
- 9:13Speaker 2: dating a girl. It's one of those ones. Never spoke
- 9:15Speaker 2: to her, maybe hugged her once twice, so you do
- 9:17Speaker 2: when you went to different high schools right middle of
- 9:20Speaker 2: so much broke up me over text deva broken ut.
- 9:24Speaker 2: It was like, you know, still had a bit of
- 9:26Speaker 2: a crush on her. It was like it is what
- 9:27Speaker 2: it is. And then you know, you get high school
- 9:29Speaker 2: for figured about oh blah blah blah, went to different
- 9:32Speaker 2: high schools and then and then we both moved back.
- 9:34Speaker 2: So so I moved to Cincumber and then like a
- 9:37Speaker 2: couple months later she moved to Kincumber. Obviously we remember
- 9:40Speaker 2: who each other are. I think it was Yeah, so
- 9:42Speaker 2: about year seven we were chatted h and then we
- 9:46Speaker 2: would like skype Scott. Yeah, the skype was every night. Yeah,
- 9:51Speaker 2: and like I was fucking in love with her, like
- 9:53Speaker 2: just had the biggest crush on it, like I wanted,
- 9:55Speaker 2: you know, and obviously was never gonna tell her the
- 9:58Speaker 2: funk would I do that? We didn't know like we
- 10:00Speaker 2: we we would say that we're like best friends, but
- 10:03Speaker 2: like we so like looking about it. We so obviously
- 10:05Speaker 2: she obviously liked me and I obviously liked her, and
- 10:09Speaker 2: we would say we're best friends, and like we would
- 10:11Speaker 2: never admit to each other that we like each other.
- 10:13Speaker 2: And we would talk for like fucking hours on sky
- 10:15Speaker 2: and like every fucking afternoon. And then she went a
- 10:23Speaker 2: little bit like off the rails, a little bit disconnected.
- 10:27Speaker 2: She moves schools, moves back to.
- 10:30Speaker 1: Your school mate. She's back to our school, your heart.
- 10:33Speaker 2: But like I forget about her, then you know, you forget,
- 10:35Speaker 2: and then like she moves back again, and then we
- 10:39Speaker 2: start chatting again, like nothing ever happened, right, And then
- 10:44Speaker 2: I think, so we were chatting. I still can't fucking
- 10:48Speaker 2: tell her I like her. I just can't do it
- 10:49Speaker 2: because it's like because this, I was like, if I
- 10:52Speaker 2: can't like, if I tell her I like her and
- 10:54Speaker 2: she says no, then the friendship's gone. And I loved
- 10:57Speaker 2: the friendship, but it wasn't friendship because I fucking liked her.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Did you not tell her as well? Because you thought
- 11:02Speaker 1: you weren't good enough?
- 11:03Speaker 2: I just was like, not ae hundred hundred I just
- 11:05Speaker 2: didn't think she liked me back. I wasn't one hundred
- 11:07Speaker 2: percent sure she liked me. I was not.
- 11:08Speaker 1: It was but it was obvious, yeah, but I wasn't
- 11:10Speaker 1: one hundred percent. You can't see it when you that young.
- 11:11Speaker 2: And and then we had school disco one night she
- 11:17Speaker 2: kissed another dude. I was like, oh, my mates comeing
- 11:21Speaker 2: to me. Mate, she kissed this guy, and I was
- 11:23Speaker 2: like and because I wanted to be friends still, I
- 11:26Speaker 2: remember like.
- 11:27Speaker 1: She like apologized for kissing another dude.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Yeah, so she obviously knew I liked her, and she
- 11:32Speaker 2: was like, I'll do anything to like make you not
- 11:35Speaker 2: be mad at me, and I was like fuck. Ended
- 11:38Speaker 2: up just being like whatever, And then I was gonna
- 11:40Speaker 2: stay friends with her. But then I think like the
- 11:41Speaker 2: next day I was kind of like, nah, sorry, like
- 11:43Speaker 2: I actually liked you, like oh yeah, yeah. So basically
- 11:48Speaker 2: that's where it ended. And then and look that's where
- 11:52Speaker 2: it ended. And then like two years later we dated
- 11:54Speaker 2: for a while. But but I'm telling you, like I reckon,
- 12:06Speaker 2: Like she ended up being I don't want to like
- 12:08Speaker 2: get in his head, but she was a bit of
- 12:09Speaker 2: like a crazy girlfriend, and we broke up for pretty much.
- 12:11Speaker 2: That's that's like when I was younger, which I could
- 12:14Speaker 2: go back and just be like, just tell her right now.
- 12:16Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was gonna say, you answered his question
- 12:19Speaker 1: exactly as well, because when she kissed another dude, it
- 12:23Speaker 1: hurt you. Yeah, And this dilemma your friend, if she
- 12:26Speaker 1: gets with someone else, that's going to hurt you because
- 12:29Speaker 1: you like her and that's not a friendship. That's so
- 12:32Speaker 1: your friendships, like, it's not friendship. Yeah, you need to
- 12:35Speaker 1: take the chance right now and find out and then
- 12:38Speaker 1: deal with those emotions and lose the friendship for a
- 12:40Speaker 1: little bit if you get rejected. But it's better to
- 12:42Speaker 1: know and deal with all the emotions and maybe you
- 12:45Speaker 1: might be friends in the future down the track. Yeah,
- 12:47Speaker 1: but right now, I think you got to shoot your
- 12:48Speaker 1: shot and back yourself. Man. I remember I was a young,
- 12:51Speaker 1: seventeen to eighteen year old kid. I thought I was ugly, skinny, tall,
- 12:54Speaker 1: like I didn't have anything going for me, but had
- 12:56Speaker 1: a few things, and I just didn't see him. Everyone
- 12:59Speaker 1: has a few things going for him, you just can't
- 13:00Speaker 1: see him when you're that young, and through adolescence and puberty,
- 13:03Speaker 1: you just nitpicky of all the most little things when
- 13:06Speaker 1: in reality, I bet you got the fact that she's
- 13:08Speaker 1: friends of you. You're making her laugh. Some people really
- 13:11Speaker 1: value that laughing thing. Like if you're making her laugh, man,
- 13:14Speaker 1: that could be all you need.
- 13:15Speaker 2: But also like again, if you would meet your feelings
- 13:19Speaker 2: and she doesn't feel the same, it's like who cares?
- 13:21Speaker 2: Exactly Like I wish I could have gone into my
- 13:23Speaker 2: head back.
- 13:24Speaker 1: Then, like who gives a fuck?
- 13:26Speaker 2: Because I'm telling like I know, I genuinely I'm telling
- 13:29Speaker 2: you I don't know your name, who sent this in,
- 13:32Speaker 2: but I genuinely I know how you feel right now
- 13:34Speaker 2: from I just told you. I know how you feel,
- 13:37Speaker 2: So don't fucking waste your time.
- 13:39Speaker 1: I remember in like high school, just out of high school,
- 13:42Speaker 1: there was always this bundle of confusion of like how
- 13:45Speaker 1: to talk about your emotions with the opposite sex. Yeah,
- 13:48Speaker 1: looking back at it now, it's the same as Jake.
- 13:50Speaker 1: You always both knew you liked each other, you both
- 13:53Speaker 1: couldn't say it, and you'll do all these stupid little games,
- 13:56Speaker 1: like you'd always hang out of each other face each FaceTime,
- 13:59Speaker 1: each other all the time. Yeah, but for some reason
- 14:01Speaker 1: you just couldn't both say I like you. You want to
- 14:03Speaker 1: be my girlfriend. It's stupid, eh, and then you might
- 14:05Speaker 1: even kissing something.
- 14:06Speaker 2: We still want to fucking We used to end the
- 14:08Speaker 2: phone call saying, I hate you really. We obviously met,
- 14:13Speaker 2: Yeah it was in love, but it was like fucking
- 14:15Speaker 2: you thought it was love, you know, like, ah hate
- 14:19Speaker 2: you more. I was like, what I mean, I was young.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I was young looking back at it, but yeah, I
- 14:24Speaker 1: wish I had like this podcast to tell me to
- 14:27Speaker 1: take the chance. It's better to know and deal with
- 14:29Speaker 1: the emotions than not. No one become Jake.
- 14:31Speaker 2: Yeah I say it, happy, but don't don't grow up
- 14:38Speaker 2: when you're twenty two, all right, I swear, don't be
- 14:40Speaker 2: like Jake. Don't grow up on your twenty two.
- 14:42Speaker 1: I swear. Every single person had like an on and
- 14:44Speaker 1: off fling with like someone like three or four years. Eh. Yeah,
- 14:47Speaker 1: everyone had that one person. Hey, yeah, both couldn't admit
- 14:50Speaker 1: their feelings and then they just kissed once or twice,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and they'll date for like a month, and they'll go off
- 14:53Speaker 1: each other and they'll still talk and FaceTime every night.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Everyone knew they were things, but they weren't really a thing. Ah,
- 14:59Speaker 1: growing off a sucks.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Okay, guys, We've done a few different topics this this episode.
- 15:12Speaker 2: This is due to a bit of uh want popular
- 15:18Speaker 2: popular demand. Last week we I mentioned something about watching
- 15:23Speaker 2: a Ted talk that I didn't know if it was
- 15:25Speaker 2: good enough to bring to the table, but people wanted
- 15:27Speaker 2: to hear it. They were interested, and so basically I've
- 15:30Speaker 2: titled it fighting is Good in a Relationship, So it's like, yeah,
- 15:34Speaker 2: like fighting is good for relationship, like that title, Yeah,
- 15:37Speaker 2: fighting is good. So I'll just give a shout out
- 15:40Speaker 2: to the Gotman Institute and the Love Lab. So the
- 15:43Speaker 2: Gotman's working at the Love Lab.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Yeah, get me in there. It feels like I belong there. Doctor.
- 15:48Speaker 2: There's two doctor Gotman's husband and wife, right, and so
- 15:51Speaker 2: they have the Gotman Institute, and then they have a
- 15:52Speaker 2: thing called the Love Lab. And so I watched it
- 15:56Speaker 2: once and then I watched it again, and I took
- 15:58Speaker 2: like a lot of notes, so I think I was
- 16:00Speaker 2: off with like maybe a little intro and then just
- 16:02Speaker 2: some interesting stuff. So basically fight, Like what they say
- 16:05Speaker 2: is fighting is good for relationships. It just kind of
- 16:08Speaker 2: depends on how you do it. Okay, So this is
- 16:11Speaker 2: a little bit of stuff about stuff they've done. So
- 16:14Speaker 2: it's like, how couples fight within the first three minutes
- 16:18Speaker 2: predicts with ninety six percent accuracy, not only how the
- 16:23Speaker 2: rest of the conversation will go, but how the rest
- 16:26Speaker 2: of the relationship will go six years down the road.
- 16:29Speaker 2: What does it mean by the first three minutes, the
- 16:31Speaker 2: first three minutes of the conversation? Yeah, so of like
- 16:35Speaker 2: an argument of the okay, okay of an argument? Yeah sorry?
- 16:38Speaker 2: So yeah, the how couples fight within the first three
- 16:40Speaker 2: minutes of the fight. Yep, some fighting improves the relationship
- 16:45Speaker 2: and even improves sex life.
- 16:48Speaker 1: I can see what makeup sex.
- 16:52Speaker 2: So they had three thousand couples come to their lab
- 16:57Speaker 2: and while they were in the lab, they had all
- 16:58Speaker 2: the monitor's heart rate, you know, close up camera like
- 17:01Speaker 2: everything was monitored, and they had these These couples had
- 17:06Speaker 2: conflict discussions or fights, talking about the events of their day,
- 17:10Speaker 2: and then after their fight, they rated how they felt
- 17:13Speaker 2: before returning home. They would return to the lab every
- 17:16Speaker 2: year or two, with some couples doing it for twenty years.
- 17:21Speaker 2: It's a good test. They've been doing this for like
- 17:23Speaker 2: fifty years. They're old. These two people were old. Okay.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Over time, they saw some couples get divorced or break up.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Some couples stayed together unhappily, and some stayed together happily.
- 17:37Speaker 2: There is three major styles of fighting. It was probably
- 17:41Speaker 2: a old bunch, but the three major ones the.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Most people do.
- 17:44Speaker 2: There are the conflict avoiders. I will say that is me.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I dabble a little bit in there.
- 17:50Speaker 2: I dabble a lot, and so conflict avoids They agreed
- 17:55Speaker 2: to disagree and would rather just wash the dishes than
- 17:58Speaker 2: argue a point in like, you know, let's say you're
- 18:01Speaker 2: gonna do the dishes, but then your your spouse is like,
- 18:04Speaker 2: when the fuck are you gonna do the dishes? Like,
- 18:05Speaker 2: instead of being like I was literally about to do them,
- 18:08Speaker 2: you're just like fine, like yeah, yeah.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Sorry you hate the confrontations through this coplic Sorry, sorry.
- 18:12Speaker 2: But I'll do it now. There's the conflict validators. They
- 18:17Speaker 2: will bring up an issue by expressing their feelings calmly
- 18:21Speaker 2: and then jumping right into problem solving.
- 18:23Speaker 1: That's that's probably me more pretty good. No, when I
- 18:26Speaker 1: read this, I was like, no, that's odd. Yeah.
- 18:29Speaker 2: And then there's the conflict volatiles. They express their feelings
- 18:35Speaker 2: in a very intense and passionate way and then they
- 18:39Speaker 2: would keep on trying to prove that they are right
- 18:41Speaker 2: and their partners, and like, I don't think like there's
- 18:47Speaker 2: I don't let look you. Obviously, there's probably some types
- 18:50Speaker 2: of fighting styles that are better than others. But as
- 18:52Speaker 2: long as like your partner understands what you've got and
- 18:55Speaker 2: they understand what you've got is I think, like it
- 18:58Speaker 2: doesn't matter that you can still it doesn't matter what
- 19:00Speaker 2: type you are. Yeah, and I think also the volatile
- 19:03Speaker 2: fighting sounds bad, but also how volatile fighters love would
- 19:07Speaker 2: be so much like so much emotion. You're very passionate. Yeah,
- 19:11Speaker 2: they're just a passionate person exactly. So it says some
- 19:14Speaker 2: partners have different styles of fighting to each other, but
- 19:17Speaker 2: you can have a successful relationship as long as the
- 19:20Speaker 2: ratio of positive to negative responses during an argument is
- 19:26Speaker 2: at least five to one. Okay, So examples of positive
- 19:30Speaker 2: responses would be like head nodding just good, like smiling
- 19:34Speaker 2: of facial expressions blah blahlah, or Stephen staying where's like
- 19:36Speaker 2: fair enough? I understand you or you know, stuff like that,
- 19:40Speaker 2: and then it goes into some negative responses. But they
- 19:45Speaker 2: like to emphasize that not all negative responses are equal.
- 19:48Speaker 2: So like, I don't think all positive ones are equal,
- 19:50Speaker 2: but they're all pretty much like balls, you know. Yeah,
- 19:53Speaker 2: and so there are four big negative responses and they
- 19:57Speaker 2: call them the four horsemen of the Apoca.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Lips horsemen of the apocalypse. Grim don't tell me. One
- 20:04Speaker 1: is raising your voice.
- 20:06Speaker 2: So number one is criticism, which means blaming a problem
- 20:12Speaker 2: on a personality floor of your partner.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So.
- 20:16Speaker 2: It's like again, I guess, say with the dishes or something.
- 20:18Speaker 2: It's like you've walked into the kitchen and it's like,
- 20:19Speaker 2: why the kitchen is so fucking dirty? You're such a slot?
- 20:21Speaker 1: Yeah, you're slop. Make it their problem.
- 20:25Speaker 2: And then contempt is it's like criticism, but with a
- 20:30Speaker 2: dash of superiority. And so it's kind of like there
- 20:33Speaker 2: may I guess superiority. They're making them sound better than
- 20:36Speaker 2: you're making yourself sound better than your partner.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Is that like all I pay all the bills?
- 20:39Speaker 2: I think? So, yeah, I think it's kind of like
- 20:42Speaker 2: or maybe you know, dishes Again, it's just an easy
- 20:45Speaker 2: exam easiest example. It's like why you wash the dishes?
- 20:47Speaker 1: You slop?
- 20:48Speaker 2: Like I do it every time I finish eating.
- 20:50Speaker 1: It's not that hard, you know, putting your Yeah, that
- 20:55Speaker 1: one's bad.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Number three, Yeah, that's pretty ship. Number three is defensiveness,
- 21:00Speaker 2: big one. That one's where sometimes hard, very difficult. So
- 21:03Speaker 2: it's when we act like an innocent victim even though yeah,
- 21:07Speaker 2: like you just like you can't help.
- 21:08Speaker 1: But act I didn't know what I was doing. Yeah.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Number four it's called stone walling, And it's just when
- 21:14Speaker 2: you shut down completely, oh, you know, very shut off,
- 21:17Speaker 2: you like you can't listen.
- 21:19Speaker 1: I feel like that there becomes a point in every
- 21:21Speaker 1: fight where you become that stand off a bit because
- 21:23Speaker 1: you just like don't know how to react. Yeah, you
- 21:26Speaker 1: just especially for males, you just go silent. What's it
- 21:28Speaker 1: called stone stone walling, stone walling. Yeah, especially for men,
- 21:31Speaker 1: you just go silent, and they're like, what are you playing?
- 21:33Speaker 1: Silent trip mew. I was like, I physically don't know
- 21:35Speaker 1: how to react.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I don't want to get that.
- 21:37Speaker 1: I don't want to yell.
- 21:38Speaker 2: I learned a little bit this about it in the video.
- 21:40Speaker 2: I learned a little bit about it. So they said
- 21:44Speaker 2: that there's the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Then they
- 21:45Speaker 2: added a fifth. All right, I was like, whatever, Five
- 21:48Speaker 2: it is. So there's one more that is closely related
- 21:52Speaker 2: to stone walling. Okay, I think that's why they just
- 21:54Speaker 2: had four. And it's called flooding or fight flight or freeze, right,
- 22:00Speaker 2: And this is when we look calm and collected on
- 22:04Speaker 2: the outside, but on the inside we are not doing good.
- 22:08Speaker 1: I'm not doing it.
- 22:09Speaker 2: Got high heart rate and we're just like scared of
- 22:12Speaker 2: sh yeah, like we can't. Like we're just like we
- 22:16Speaker 2: look calm, but like your heart rates like they were saying,
- 22:19Speaker 2: like heart rate likee hundred bats a minute type ship
- 22:21Speaker 2: like over that and like you're just like fucking hearing
- 22:23Speaker 2: ringing and ship, you know what I mean.
- 22:25Speaker 1: That's relatable. Yeah, So.
- 22:28Speaker 2: If either one of you get flooded, it is very
- 22:32Speaker 2: important that you call for a break. To love this.
- 22:40Speaker 2: So it's very important that you call for a break.
- 22:43Speaker 2: But you need to say a time when you will
- 22:46Speaker 2: come back to resume the argument. That's very important.
- 22:49Speaker 1: I liked it. I didn't have a time.
- 22:50Speaker 2: Yeah. See that's where I thought you might like as well.
- 22:52Speaker 2: So you need to add a time. So it's like
- 22:54Speaker 2: I'm sorry, like I'm flooded, I need a break for
- 22:58Speaker 2: just give me an hour, yeah, all right. And the
- 23:00Speaker 2: thing another really important thing is on this break is
- 23:04Speaker 2: that you do not think about the fight. Oh you self, soothe, relax,
- 23:09Speaker 2: and you're gonna be able to come back and be
- 23:12Speaker 2: able to actually listen.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Talk open mindedly. Yes, well that's a great tip for
- 23:16Speaker 1: a relationship. I know I need that. Yeah. I think
- 23:21Speaker 1: it's also important to realize that when your partner says
- 23:23Speaker 1: they need time, it's also like not an attack, like
- 23:26Speaker 1: they need to figure out their emotions and relax.
- 23:29Speaker 2: Yeah. But I think which is one massive thing is
- 23:31Speaker 2: like give me an hour or like to I don't know,
- 23:35Speaker 2: time to come back to.
- 23:36Speaker 1: So many people think like I've got to deal with
- 23:37Speaker 1: it now, Like we can't just we can't go over
- 23:39Speaker 1: for an hour. I'm gonna be thinking about the whole time,
- 23:40Speaker 1: like we've got to deal with this now. And it
- 23:42Speaker 1: just doesn't help.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Yeah, because like like you say, like you start to
- 23:47Speaker 2: remember you saying once that maybe had a little love
- 23:49Speaker 2: tip with your girlfriend and and you didn't catch yourself
- 23:52Speaker 2: getting heated, and so you guys start to get it
- 23:55Speaker 2: just gets out of proportions. Someone says something they don't mean.
- 23:59Speaker 1: You forget what you're fighting at all. This you like
- 24:01Speaker 1: you're the problem. Yeah, yeah, defensiveness do you you yeah,
- 24:04Speaker 1: pointing like yeah, and then the little tiny problem that
- 24:08Speaker 1: turns into like the biggest thing that this escalates, so
- 24:11Speaker 1: like you're taking that time is so important, alrighty.
- 24:15Speaker 2: The difference between couples that fight right versus fight wrong.
- 24:21Speaker 2: When you fight wrong, you will bring up an issue
- 24:24Speaker 2: within the first three minutes with something called harsh startup,
- 24:29Speaker 2: which always includes criticism or contempt. So that's like, yeah,
- 24:36Speaker 2: you know if you An example they used is like
- 24:39Speaker 2: if someone's cooking dinner all the time, I'd say, say,
- 24:43Speaker 2: the wife is cooking dinner every night. Yeah, She'll come
- 24:45Speaker 2: to her husband and just be like, why don't you
- 24:47Speaker 2: ever take me out to dinner? You cheap? I didn't
- 24:53Speaker 2: say the same word, you cheap or something, And so
- 24:57Speaker 2: that's harsh startup.
- 25:00Speaker 1: And then you're just caught off guard. And then you
- 25:01Speaker 1: and how do you respond to that. You're defensive.
- 25:03Speaker 2: You'd be like, whoa, I'm busy, you know. Yeah, to
- 25:08Speaker 2: fight right, you will bring up an issue with a
- 25:10Speaker 2: softened startup, and a softened startup consists of a bunch
- 25:14Speaker 2: of eye statements that describe yourself, not your partner. You
- 25:20Speaker 2: start with what you feel, then you describe the situation
- 25:23Speaker 2: at hand, and then what you need from your partner
- 25:27Speaker 2: to make things better rather than what you resent.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Mm yeah, what you need from them. Yeah.
- 25:33Speaker 2: So I think the example they gave was something like,
- 25:36Speaker 2: I'm feeling stressed that I'm always cooking dinner? Would you
- 25:42Speaker 2: please take me out one night? Which really is quite
- 25:46Speaker 2: like when you think when you dumb it down, like
- 25:47Speaker 2: it's so black and White's a soft approach, but you
- 25:49Speaker 2: can see how that would be taken yeah, compared to
- 25:51Speaker 2: the why don't you ever take me out? Exactly? Instead
- 25:54Speaker 2: of just getting mad, he doesn't know your stress. He
- 25:56Speaker 2: just thinks you've been a bitch. Yeah.
- 25:58Speaker 1: And sometimes there's you hear every relationship say like I
- 26:02Speaker 1: can't mind read, and it's because of that first initial approach.
- 26:05Speaker 2: Yo, I've said I can't mind read bad time, I know.
- 26:09Speaker 1: But that's also like a problem for your partner because
- 26:11Speaker 1: she thinks or he thinks that you can.
- 26:14Speaker 2: So it's exactly, yeah, I mean, I do you have
- 26:15Speaker 2: to voice.
- 26:15Speaker 1: How you feel in a soft manner, especially for your
- 26:18Speaker 1: boyfriend and the dumber down to him to make him
- 26:20Speaker 1: realize what you're feeling and how this could make you
- 26:23Speaker 1: feel that makes so much sense?
- 26:24Speaker 2: It does, doesn't It's crazy. Yeah, these are they're all
- 26:27Speaker 2: very simple obviously sixty nine percent.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of all of all.
- 26:32Speaker 2: Relationship problems are perpetual, which means they never actually go away.
- 26:39Speaker 2: So basically conflicts they need to be managed and not
- 26:43Speaker 2: always solved.
- 26:44Speaker 1: That makes sense sixty nine percent.
- 26:46Speaker 2: She said. They were saying that couples that came into
- 26:48Speaker 2: the first trial that had a little gripe with each other,
- 26:52Speaker 2: you know, they figure it out healthily. Every two years
- 26:55Speaker 2: they come back, it'd be the same thing.
- 26:57Speaker 1: IM thinking. I'm realizing that that you manage your problems
- 27:00Speaker 1: always a solution because you're different people. Yeah, and it's
- 27:02Speaker 1: accepting that you are different. Yeah, it's crazy.
- 27:05Speaker 2: All right, it's my last little sentence. The biggest mistake
- 27:10Speaker 2: couples make when bringing perpetual or solvable problems is they
- 27:14Speaker 2: fight to win, which means somebody has to lose. What
- 27:18Speaker 2: the masters do you ask? They fight to understand.
- 27:23Speaker 1: I love that fight to understand people.
- 27:26Speaker 2: Like fight in a relationship is like the F word, Yeah,
- 27:29Speaker 2: like we no, no, no, we don't fight. Yeah, yeah, I
- 27:31Speaker 2: want to start saying fucking we fight Yeah. Yeah, we
- 27:34Speaker 2: fucking fight.
- 27:34Speaker 1: We fight, and you know who wins both of them? Yeah,
- 27:39Speaker 1: we fight to understand each other.
- 27:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have. I ran a little long time
- 27:45Speaker 2: because I wanted to go to the gym. Sorry, but
- 27:49Speaker 2: I'm going to do a little more research because they
- 27:53Speaker 2: started talking about when a perpetual or a solvable problem
- 27:57Speaker 2: comes up. They started talking about how there's some really good, designated,
- 28:03Speaker 2: designed questions to understand. So it's like they're basically there's
- 28:09Speaker 2: six of them. They say, there's six questions that are
- 28:11Speaker 2: designed to get how you feel, how you think, and
- 28:14Speaker 2: like history like past history or whatever of why I'm
- 28:17Speaker 2: feeling this way, getting into the center of the problem.
- 28:20Speaker 2: And yeah, and so what the tactic is is like
- 28:23Speaker 2: say you and I have a fight where a couple,
- 28:25Speaker 2: we have a fight. I ask you the six questions.
- 28:27Speaker 2: You answer, I'm not allowed to interrupt. You answer.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Then we rolls reverse and you ask me the six
- 28:32Speaker 2: we should do it? We should. I need to find them.
- 28:36Speaker 2: I just couldn't find them, and they didn't link a
- 28:37Speaker 2: fucking thing to their website. I'm just gonna have to
- 28:39Speaker 2: look up like I'll try and find I'm sure it's
- 28:41Speaker 2: on there. Somewhere, but I've freaking I thought it was interesting. A.
- 28:44Speaker 1: I think it's all very useful information, And I'm thinking,
- 28:46Speaker 1: how can you implement that when you're trying to make
- 28:48Speaker 1: the relationship better but your partner's stuck in his ways
- 28:51Speaker 1: and using all those bad defensive method putting his walls up, reserve,
- 28:54Speaker 1: doing all those things.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, like how do you bring this up without
- 28:58Speaker 2: it feeling like an attack?
- 29:00Speaker 1: Yeah? And like it's all good and well, Like I
- 29:02Speaker 1: bet you there's so many situations where you're like, we
- 29:04Speaker 1: can just fight so much better, but he or she's
- 29:06Speaker 1: just yelling at you, yeah, or like he just doesn't
- 29:08Speaker 1: know how to voice his opinion. How can you bring
- 29:10Speaker 1: this sort of conversation up with someone about how to
- 29:13Speaker 1: fight better?
- 29:14Speaker 2: I maybe it's like you do try the soften startup
- 29:18Speaker 2: or something. I don't know, like some people, I'm sure
- 29:20Speaker 2: how you could.
- 29:20Speaker 1: Probably it's simple as like, so the way we fight,
- 29:24Speaker 1: obviously we get so heated, and for some reason it
- 29:27Speaker 1: makes us feel like one of us has to win?
- 29:30Speaker 1: Should we try and implement some of these things? So
- 29:33Speaker 1: the problem isn't one of us is to understand each
- 29:36Speaker 1: other better? Yeah? Like something like that obviously.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure, Like I think sometimes I don't want
- 29:44Speaker 2: to speak for anyone's relationship, but I do think sometimes
- 29:47Speaker 2: people love a bit of a proper row like yeah,
- 29:50Speaker 2: like a properly yelling match. And I don't but and
- 29:54Speaker 2: even though it doesn't make it feel good, but I think, yeah,
- 29:57Speaker 2: if you guys, if you're a couple, that's like that,
- 30:00Speaker 2: if you could just say to your partner boy or girl, like,
- 30:04Speaker 2: you know, when we fight, yeah, it fucking sucks, you know,
- 30:08Speaker 2: do you think it sucks? Yeah, EI think it sucks.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Doesn't make maybe you don't say to you, maybe just say, like,
- 30:15Speaker 2: when we fight, how does that make you feel? I
- 30:18Speaker 2: feel terrible every time? And like you could even say,
- 30:23Speaker 2: like I feel terrible how I speak to you? I
- 30:26Speaker 2: feel terrible? How I make you feel? And then that's
- 30:31Speaker 2: kind of like some eyes. And then you say, what
- 30:35Speaker 2: I think we should do is approach it differently, because
- 30:39Speaker 2: that's saying how it makes you feel, and then you're
- 30:40Speaker 2: saying what you need from your partner to fix this
- 30:42Speaker 2: solvable or perpetual issue.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Perfectly. I think that's perfect. It's funny how men and
- 30:48Speaker 1: women digest information differently, like, especially because we learn from
- 30:52Speaker 1: this pod that we have ninety percent female audience because
- 30:56Speaker 1: although it's funny and we try and have a bit
- 30:58Speaker 1: of a laugh around here, we try and hide a
- 31:00Speaker 1: good message under each episode, which some dud some do,
- 31:03Speaker 1: some don't do, like, but girls like to sort of
- 31:05Speaker 1: take away something from like their time. Yeah yeah yeah,
- 31:09Speaker 1: Whereas this is statistically proven that dudes like prefer just
- 31:12Speaker 1: to like not think, have a bit of like background,
- 31:15Speaker 1: always talk about footy, talk about betting.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Well, we went to a fucking we were on a
- 31:18Speaker 2: podcast seminar that gave statistics of Australia at least know
- 31:21Speaker 2: Australia is pretty similar to the Western world. Yeah, we're
- 31:24Speaker 2: part of the Western world, so it's probably pretty similar
- 31:26Speaker 2: in like America, Cannabi. I'm just thinking it is going
- 31:28Speaker 2: to be hard for all of our female listeners who
- 31:30Speaker 2: might have trouble fighting their partner to bring it up
- 31:33Speaker 2: because men do digest information so much differently.
- 31:36Speaker 1: So what you said is good.
- 31:37Speaker 2: I think it's just yeah, and I just I think
- 31:39Speaker 2: like that's just such like like it's like it's just such.
- 31:41Speaker 1: A soft way to bring it up.
- 31:42Speaker 2: It's like, how could they get upset except like the
- 31:44Speaker 2: only all they could do is is think and it's
- 31:48Speaker 2: like they're going to be like, oh my god, like
- 31:49Speaker 2: she's so right, you know, he's so right, And and
- 31:54Speaker 2: I think if they react badly, it just says so
- 31:58Speaker 2: much about.
- 31:59Speaker 1: I'm thinking about all of our friends who are in relationships,
- 32:01Speaker 1: and I can picture their flights right now, and some
- 32:03Speaker 1: of their reactions are nunhealthy at all.
- 32:05Speaker 2: No, No, I think about fights I've had in the past.
- 32:07Speaker 1: No that I'm judging a relationship, but I'm just seeing
- 32:10Speaker 1: that for what it is now.
- 32:11Speaker 2: I think about flights I've had the past, like heaps
- 32:14Speaker 2: of flights I've had in the past with girlfriends, and
- 32:16Speaker 2: and yeah, one thing I reckon I do heaps is
- 32:21Speaker 2: the what's it called flooding, fight, flight or freeze. So
- 32:25Speaker 2: I look like I'm listening and I am listening to
- 32:29Speaker 2: be fair.
- 32:29Speaker 1: But I don't know what to do kind of digested
- 32:33Speaker 1: and response.
- 32:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, I literally I can't talk. Yeah, that's
- 32:38Speaker 2: my biggest way is I can't talk.
- 32:40Speaker 1: We'll end it on fight to understand, Fight to understand.