If you have searched for relationship advice at any point in the last 20 plus years, you have likely stumbled on the work of John Gray.
A generation ago, John Gray’s Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus helped couples communicate and deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently we might as well be from different planets. In teaching couples to communicate, even speak each other’s language, John Gray became the best-known relationship expert in the world.
A generation and several best sellers later, John has provided a 21st century update on the change in gender roles with his latest book, Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today’s Complex World.
This book is so well researched and full of practical insight from John’s 45 years working in the field of relationships. Like anything worth having, relationships can feel like work sometimes. But with the right tools, they can also be the most rewarding. This one is a must read AND practice if you want to have the supportive, fulfilling, evolving, loving… relationship you’ve always dreamed about.
Today, we do a deep dive into Beyond Mars and Venus and John gives us practical tools, for both men and women, to start improving our relationships right away.
We dive into topics like
- How men and women tend to misinterpret each other
- How to support our partners in coming back into balance
- The goal of complaint-free relationships
- Shifting relationship roles in the modern world
- Some key phrases for men to say when they feel triggered by their partner
- How men can create safety for women to feel what they feel
- Questions men can ask their woman to help lower their stress
- What not to do if you want your man to feel less stressed and more masculine
- The benefit of men having cave time
- How men can be more in their peaceful, centered, calm place
- Balancing estrogen and testosterone in your relationship
- How to stay out of the friend zone with your partner
- How to experience more intimacy in your relationship
- Creating a biological balance in your relationship
- Balancing the male and female principles and qualities inside yourself
- Understanding what women need at different times in her cycle
- The role of estrogen, oxytocin, progesterone, and testosterone
- The driving force for connection in both men and women
- Pair bonding and anticipation
- How men need a sense of being successful and working hard in order to produce more testosterone and reduce stress
- When men are being needy, they are actually producing more estrogen and moving more to their feminine side
- Where to get started when improving yourself and your relationship
- How to follow your heart and your mind
- Developing gender intelligence and finding out what your partner truly needs
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Resources
- Pick up Beyond Mars and Venus on Amazon
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