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Episode 139: Same But Different: Distinctions Between the Brains of Men & Women (A Relationship Series, Part Two)

Being Human

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How to Talk About a Man's Anxiety

The woman is built for nurturing, which means connection. She's the one where a person is going to exist inside of. So she doesn't have that same perspective and that's built into her brain chemistry and physiology. The man wants to fix things because he's taking care of the outside. He's protecting and providing. When we do have an emotional connection, our anxiety is increased when we see that the person we care about is hurting. This happens through the mirror neuron system. We have neurons that tell us how somebody else is feeling and then we feel the same way. If we love our wife and our wife is suffering, we're going to suffer that increases our anxiety. And the

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