Suzanne Venker
First, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos. Now, Bill and Melinda Gates. Divorce among middle-aged adults is so popular these days there’s a term for it: gray divorce, or married couples who break up in the second half of life. Gray divorce doubled between 1990 and 2012 and is largely a Boomer phenomenon. Not one their children …
Today on the show we’re going to discuss thirteen reasons modern marriage fails. IN THIS EPISODE: 3:00 Too many young couples don’t understand the meaning of marriage 6:00 Adopting a Judeo-Christian model for marriage can solve marital issues 6:30 Men have become feminized, and women have become masculinized 7:00 Couples are holding back the tide …
Today we’re going to talk about the most important red flags to consider while dating, for both women and men. IN THIS EPISODE: 3:20 Your guy needs to have a job, a purpose and a plan 8:00 Is he a mama’s boy? 10:40 Men: There’s really only one thing you need to figure out while …
Ladies, do you wish someone would have told you the things you had to learn the hard way about men? I don’t know about you, but I wish I’d known the things I’m going to tell you when I was first married. If you know how men think, and you become fluent in their language, …
What if you could be satisfied with what you have and never again wonder what else is ‘out there’? What if your love life were 100% aligned with your expectations? Unfortunately, we live in a culture that encourages people to search for something better when they’re dissatisfied with their marriage or relationship. This is especially …
This article was originally published at Evie Magazine. When I was 23, I married my college sweetheart. We’d been together since freshman year, although he was two years older than I was and as a result had been out in the real world for two years before I graduated. But he was only three hours …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that America has become a society of victims. My next guest, Adam Coleman, just released a new book entitled “Black Victim to Black Victor,” where he outlines all the ways in which the black community has been conditioned to believe they are oppressed and how black …
It’s one of the most taboo topics on the planet: what happens when wives earn more. The following podcast is an in-depth look at what happened when one wife’s side hustle exploded and created a rift in her marriage, causing resentment and frustration that led to an eventual separation. When Lauren Taylor, who’s from South …
President Biden’s train wreck of a press conference last week overshadowed an equally disturbing event the day before. We would be wise not to forget the words he used on that day. March 24 was Equal Pay Day, a day that means absolutely nothing to the vast majority of Americans who are too savvy to …
“I did things backward. I started my career first, and marriage came much later.” Those are the words of my then 36-year-old mother in a 1966 article in The St. Louis Post Dispatch about her career as a stockbroker. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was born in 1930, my mother got …
**This is a rebroadcast of Ep. 44 w/ Mikhaila Peterson. We’ll be back next week with more exciting content. Suzanne will be interviewing one of her coaching clients. DON’T MISS IT! Thanks for listening. Enjoy.** It’s hard enough to be a millennial these days. But does being Jordan Peterson’s daughter make it easier? Or harder? …
Most of us are aware that what happens to us in childhood has a huge effect on who we become as adults. But what if the opposite is also true? What if what doesn’t happen in childhood has an equal, or even greater effect? The absence of emotional support in childhood is as damaging as …
Have you been told that science is sexist? Or that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? …
Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist who explores how we think about the self, and why we feel and act the way we do. He’s one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists who has published well over 500 scientific articles and more than 30 books. In 2013, he received the highest award given …
So my kids and my friends’ kids are now at the age when they’re seriously dating and thinking about the future. Unfortunately, the advice most of them receive from the culture, via the media and via their universities, isn’t just bad. It completely undermines women’s chances for a happy, balanced life. Young women in particular …
Dear Suzanne, I’m 29 and don’t feel anywhere close to marriage. Part of my frustration comes from the fact that for a large part of my 20s I haven’t been prioritizing the pursuit of romantic relationships at all, and I’m regretting it now, as I have been feeling more and more over the past few …
You probably know the adult viewpoints on marriage, infertility, reproductive technologies, same-sex parenting, divorce, and adoption. But have you ever considered these matters from the kids’ perspective? In her new book, Them Before Us, Katy Faust flips the script on adult-centric attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and reproductive technologies by framing these issues around a child’s …
Believe it or not, many men today are just as interested in having a happy marriage as are women, and they’re actually great at becoming true partners in creating a great marriage. But: they need guidance. Too many men grew up in homes where a father was absent physically or emotionally. As a result, men …
So I had a coaching session recently w a gal who, on her intake form, wrote that she’d read my 2011 book, How to Choose a Husband—which, as a side note, is being re-released this year under a new title with a new intro—and that when she came across the passage that said ‘Put marriage …
“Women have been acculturated to believe they should be their own heroes. Women’s television delivers this message over and over again with movies in which, at most, one good man might provide some small assistance as the heroine rescues herself.” Those are the words of “Claudia,” the wise grandmother who tutors her granddaughter Kimberlee in …
Modern marriages are a mess. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal brought this reality home with its claim that millennials are embracing pre-nups. There’s no pretty way to describe a pre-nup. It simply means to pay a lawyer to prepare financially for a divorce before you’ve even walked down the aisle. Pre-nups have …
In this podcast episode, Suzanne shares letters from readers and listeners. 3:00 Suzanne reads an email from Ashley, a left-leaning listener/reader who has a PhD, lives in a big city and was on the verge of divorce. Feeling like she had no other options, she started reading Suzanne’s books, tried out her theory and saw …
In the film Leap Year, the main character Anna (played by Amy Adams) is a complete control freak. Toward the end of the film, Declan, Anna’s love interest, says to her, “Why don’t you stop trying to control everything in the known universe? It’s dinner. Have a little faith that it will all work out.” …
I’m at that parenting stage when our adult sons and daughters are knee deep in college, in jobs, and in relationships. As a result, I’m watching many of my friends’ kids, as well as my own, start planning for the future. My husband and I have a son and a daughter. And unlike many modern …
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