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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is pod Popular Podcast for the People, The Great
Love Debate. It's the Great Love Debate, the Great Love Debate.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's a great Love to bab Hi again. Everyone's Brian Howie.
Welcome to the Great Love Debate, the world's number one
dating air relationship podcast since twenty fifteen. I am here
in the very fine, fancy and brand new updated studios
of Pod Popular Podcasts for the People. I am at
the one in Palm Beach Gardens and it's a new one,
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and I have Travis here, not only on the controls,
but he's also hanging some shit here. So if you
hear a drill, he was worried. He's like, I don't
I don't want to make noise during your podcast. And
I said, my podcast listeners love ambient noise, and some
of my podcast listeners out there are like, no, we
do not. We don't like ambient noise. But if you
hear a drill or something breaking, he's hanging stuff. One
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thing that we we touch on, I don't know. Occasionally
around here we touch on it more, but we haven't
quite done it in a while is the concept of
the five love languages. And for those of you who
are not familiar. It was a book by Gary Chapman. Chapman,
I think, and it basically says that everyone has a
certain love language that is most important, and that by
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understanding and speaking your partner's love language and having them
understand yours somehow you are able to properly communicate and
give your partner what they want need to be happy, fulfilled, whatever.
So now, common mistake that people make, whether it's in
their thought process or in their their dating profile, is
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that they're trying to find someone who speaks the same
love language. And if you aren't familiar, and just to
back up forty five seconds here, the love language in
the book, the five love languages are acts of service,
receiving gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, and physical touch.
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And we'll circle back to those in a second in
a little bit more detail. But my issue is in
people trying to find a partner who speaks the same
love language, which makes no sense to me. You know,
you both love receiving gifts. You both think that's your
love language, or you're looking for somebody who also likes that,
so you just sort of pingpong the massage weekend gift
cards back and forth between you. That doesn't make any
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sense to me. Of course not. Of course that is
not a recipe for anything. And that kind of mindset
has you and a lot of people out there looking for,
you know, a version of yourself. I like this. This
makes my life easier if they like that. H That's
like saying, you know, you both need to be Denver
Bronco fans and people date that way, or fans of
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the Office people date that way. But you need to
be you know, find a situation rather than that, to
find one who can sort of compliment and enhance who
you are and the situation. But I'm not here to
just dive in all the love languages. I'm here to
talk about my problem with them, the issue I have
with them. First of all, I don't think there's only five,
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and I don't know. I would love to see Gary
Chapman's discard list. I would like to see how he
had fifteen and then narrowed it down, and he's probably like, oh,
these three are kind of the same, let's do that.
It's a lot easier if you have a group of five.
I get that. I don't think there's only five, though,
I mean Mazarelli sticks or my love language, and I
don't see them on this list or in his book.
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Not a single maxim mentioned. But maybe that's in receiving gifts.
I want some to give those to me. I don't know.
But that's not my issue with the love languages. My
issue is this, eighty five percent of men have the
same love language eighty five percent. And you're like, where'd
you get that stat from? I did the research myself.
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I've done it twice two times. We have done a
survey of over one thousand men, which makes this the
single biggest survey ever done on this, and ask them
what is their love language, and men eighty five percent,
like eighty four point five came back with the same
love language. So back to Gary Chapman's book. If you're
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going to break this concept down and say there's only
there's five and there's only five, that's fine, but they
better be split at about twenty percent each. You can't
have one have eighty five percent and then the other four,
at least on the men's side collectively do fifteen and
or else it doesn't really make sense. And on the
women's side, it's not twenty twenty, twenty twenty twenty either
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you know, but it's it's a little closer on that.
So when I ask women, which is what I'm getting
into here today, to guess the love language that eighty
five percent of men have, about eighty five percent of
them get it wrong. And the fact that they get
it wrong really affects everything about how they date and
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who they date and the outcome of them dating. Because
if you think a guy I wants this or does
this or has that and it's not quite right, neither
of you will be fulfilled. And you hear the drill,
that's the drill. I told you it was coming. And
that's a huge problem with all of this and all
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of us. Nobody is fulfilled. So you're probably like, oh,
just get to the point. What is the eighty love
language that eighty five percent of men have? And some
of you're trying to guess out there, Well, that is
called a tease. We will reveal that love lesson for
you here. Don't be a tease, but we will reveal
the answer to that and be back right after this.
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And we are back. We're talking about love languages. So
eighty five percent of women think that men No, wait,
that's wrong. Sorry, I almost ware eighty five percent of
women guess this wrong. Eighty five percent of men have
the same love language and almost all women and guess
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it to be physical touch. They're like, men are horny,
primitive creatures. It must be physical touch, and it is
not and it is not gifts, and it is not
acts of service. Eighty five percent of men love language
is words of affirmation, and because they do not get
words of affirmation, they need the physical touch because in
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some way that is at least a sign that she
thinks something positive of you. I bring this up a
lot that a lot of times the women are like, oh,
the men are just trying to get some action on
the first date, and they're always groping at me whatever.
It's that. It's because they are not hear that's real.
It's because they are not getting anything back communicatively on
these dates. They tell you you're pretty, they tell you
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would you like to see a dessert menu, They compliment you,
they say all these things, and maybe the men is
getting back thank you. So he's like, well, if I
make a move and she likes it, well then she
doesn't think I'm gross. But if he got some positive words,
I got it, he would calm down. To the point
where I've said many times, if the women want the
men to just calm the fuck down on the first date,
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she has to be like, listen, I find you super attractive.
I just don't like to do anything until I'm ready.
But when I'm ready, it will blow your mind, and
he will calm the fuck down because he knows blow
your mind is on the menu. I talk about this
on our live shows a lot that there's three things
that all men three things at all women need. There's
three things that all men need, and the women just
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to quick a refresher if you're new around here. The
women need to feel special, they need to feel safe,
and they need to feel sexy. Safe is the tough one.
On the women's side, they need to safe is about
trust and sharing and oustin and understanding all these things.
But on the men's side, the men need to be
admired or respected. The men need to be appreciated, and
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the men need to be needed, And that is the
tough one, especially as we record this in twenty twenty four.
The men are not needed much anymore. And I say
all the time, you know the people, some women say no,
it's about want, not need, no no need. I want
tater touts. I need world peace. Now I screwed up
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my own joke. I need I need world peace. I
want tater tuts. I don't even know my joke is
anymore anyway. But that's the difference, Like it's about need.
They want to be needed, and the need is not
I need physical touch. I need you to need me
a lot more. A lot more women have a love
language of physical touch than men do. It's not even close,
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but the men the women sometimes, misterpt it. I know
a girl and uh, she was really having challenges in
her marriage, and she couldn't understand why her husband did
not care about her love her the way she thought
he should or wanted him to. And she says to me,
I was talking to her. I barely knew her, so
surprised that she even said this, But she said, I
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don't understand I give him blowjobs. She said that about
her husband, and and like that was gonna be the
magical thing that of course he's gonna love her, like
if she's performing these sort of wifely duties, especially the
light bulb was going to go off for him. And
I'm like, she doesn't get it. If she somehow, you know,
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encouraged him or made him feel good about himself, or
create an environment there he could feel confident or any
of these other things, or made him feel loved or anything,
he probably wouldn't need that. And he doesn't even need
that she's given to him because she's like, I'm going
to give him this. This at least has to make
him happy. No, it will also make him happy, but
it will not be the core that makes him happy.
And you and a lot of the women are like,
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I shouldn't have to do that. Happiness as this comes
from with him whatever. I don't know. It's about an
environment and two of you have to create an environment
where each other can be happy and the trust can
flourish and the sharing can happen and all these kind
of things. So if you're just like, oh, I'll just
have sex with him, that's going to be everything. And
the same girl, I mean, they got divorced later. I
know that because it didn't work out. And that same
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girl I know her dating now. She she tends to
lead with sex. She's like, if I give them sex,
they're gonna, they're gonna that's what they need. And they
like me I'm like, they also need other things, and
a lot of those other things they need first, and
they need intimacy, and sometimes they need to hug, and
sometimes they need to hold your hand, and sometimes they
need to feel like they look good, and they need
all these things. So, yes, men are sometimes very primitive,
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horny creatures and cave men. But a lot of times
that's because nothing else is getting in or getting through
to them. And so I'm not trying to like put
the burden on the ladies, but a lot of this
is you're just not understanding the men. And if you
think that physical touch is what is driving him, it's not.
It's the words, and the men rarely get the words.
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The very very best partner that I know, the best
partner in the world, she never misses an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
To say.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I love you, you're the best, You're my guy, I
believe in you, I'm proud of you, I support you,
I'm so happy to be with you, all of those
things that maybe in the twenty years of marriage people
have trouble saying to each other. And I understand that
in the noise of a life and the noise of
a family, you might forget to do that, but a
lot of times he doesn't forget to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I know there's a lot of women out there, like
my husband hasn't told me I'm beautiful in ten years,
maybe because he thinks he's not getting anything back, or
maybe he thinks you won't care, or maybe he thinks
you're saying it for the wrong reason. I don't know.
There's a lot of this, and a lot of the women,
you know, if you ask them, they need physical touch
because they want to feel desired, and that is the
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missing element out of a lot of the women. They
want to feel desired, they want to feel close. They
want physical touch because they need closeness. And sometimes that
is just a hand on the arm or a or
a hug or something like that. It's not necessarily sex either.
They want him to say I've got you, and touch
means I've got you. Some of this, you know, I
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know we've gotten into before, and some of it we haven't.
But it comes up a lot, and I'm surprised at
a concept that really seems to have so much legs
and people talk about a lot. They rarely talk about
that sort of blip in his system where it's like, well,
if eighty five percent of men want the same thing
and a big, big chunk of women are getting it wrong,
we're not doing a good job of communicating what that
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is and why it's getting why it's wrong, and so
many of the women are like, he's a simple creature.
He is. I've said before, the men are light switches
and the women are motherboards. And you know, we had
back in the early days of this podcast, we had
doctor John Gray, the guy who wrote mars Venus, on
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this podcast, and he was fantastic, and he agreed with
a lot of the you know, the differences between the
men and the women and how they've evolved. We always
say on the Great Love Debate, the women look for
red flags and the men look for green lights. We
stand by that. He agrees with that. We're just different
in what we're looking for. And for him, a green
light comes from the words, comes from the words. So
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if you think that, you know, well, I made out
with him, so he knows I like him, not necessarily,
And I'm saying you shouldn't do that either. Saying you shouldn't,
I'm saying you got to follow that up with this
was fun. That was great. I want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You look good.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You know, we get the smack on the nose as
men way more than we get the pat on the nose.
The pat on the nose means so much more because
it is rarer. And so if you think about it again,
as always, I'm never trying to defend the men. Most men,
including me, suck. But if you're getting into this and
you're trying to understand, what is something very very easy
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that I need to do for him to make him
understand not that he cares about me, that that I
care about him. It's not a lap dance. It's not
say that for birthdays and anniversaries. It's you were amazing today,
or you made me feel great, or I'm proud of you,
or I love how hard you work, I love how
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you take care of this family, whatever it is. I
love how you put me first. Things like that. And
then maybe even if he's not putting me first, he
might realize that that matters to you. So your words
of affirmation will boomerang back to you in a very
very positive way that it's like, oh, she recognized that
I did something that made me care more about her,
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that made me love her, that made me want her,
that made me appreciate her all of that. And so
you know, this isn't the longest podcast that I can
tell that Travis has tried to dodge around my sentences
to avoid the drill. Go ahead and drill trap this drill,
baby drill. He's putting acoustic panels up on the wall,
so maybe there's little echo. But that's what I want
to get into today. Ladies, men, don't assume that's what
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it is, because it is not. Give him some words
and a gift card for some Mazzarelli sticks. As far
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