How To Navigate The Dangers Of Modern Dating - Sadia Khan - #634

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Sadia Khan. She's a relationship coach, author, speaker, and a psychologist. The divorce rate has been on a steady rise for decades, but are relationships actually getting harder, or is everyone just more fragile? The word trauma is thrown around an awful lot, but it covers all manner of sins, many of which are not trauma. Expect to learn what people are getting most wrong about relationship advice, the factors that best predict divorce and a declining relationship, why the word trauma and its meaning have become perverted, the insidious reason behind why partners insight chaos into some relationships, Sadia's thoughts on the growing childlessness epidemic, whether Dubai is actually an Islamic haven, and much more. Some interesting insights here. I appreciate getting the viewpoint of someone not only who comes from an Islamic background, but also is trained in the therapeutic and sort of trauma care side of psychology. A lot of interesting bits here, especially the one around much men's advice at the moment tells men that they're supposed to be self-disciplined in every area of life up until the boundaries around their penis, at which point they're no longer supposed to be disciplined. I think that that is going to be a talking point. You're going to see an awful lot more over the remainder of the year. It is some fairly blatant hypocrisy that I don't think men's advice has managed to square the circle of just yet. Interesting stuff. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Marek Health. I am three months, three and a half months, I think, into my Marek Health protocol of diet and lifestyle interventions and supplements and stuff. And I feel pretty, I feel really good actually. My energy has definitely improved. You do not know what's going on inside of your body. And this is where Marek Health steps in. Health optimization is a common phrase in the fitness space. 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