571. Advice for Love and Marriage | Answer the Call
8/14/202553 min
Dr. Peterson answers caller questions on marriage and family, offering practical advice on how to support your spouse, navigate parenting challenges, overcome the impact of past relationships, and balance multicultural influences. His guidance helps build strong, lasting marriages grounded in patience and understanding. Would you like to join the show? Share a question here: dailywire.com/answerthecall (The views expressed on "Answer The Call" are presented for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes, and are not intended as medical, nutritional, or psychological advice. Viewers are strongly encouraged to consult with a qualified healthcare professional before making any decisions based on...
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsJordan B. Peterson· Host0:00
(dramatic music plays) You don't win an argument with your wife. You never win that. Part of your defensive mechanism and your pride is gonna be, "Well, this time for sure."
Mikhaila Peterson· Host0:08
Sometimes, though.
Jordan B. Peterson· Host0:08
Yeah. Yeah, well, it's convenient when that's the case.
John0:11
What's some advice that you could give a man my age on how best to integrate, hmm, or maybe conquer the ghosts of past relationships?
Jordan B. Peterson· Host0:20
The core of the question was, what can I do to ensure that I'm not dragging the past into the future? Understand the past. Understand the past. There will be times when you or your partner were betrayed in the past, by yourself, by someone else, doesn't matter. There's a betrayal. And then when I suggest that it's you, you're gonna get defensive, partly because you don't want it to be you and partly because there's a part of you that knows that there's something underneath that that's going to be very unpleasant to uncover. You also have to allow your partner to do a good thing badly. When they first start to listen, when they first start to help and untangle, you gotta let them flail about a fair bit. People will often do something difficult twice, go on a date, for example, when they haven't been with each other for a long time, it won't go well and they'll think, "Well, we're certainly not doing that again." That happens to people. Then they don't have any romance for decades. That is not wise. That's not wise.
Mikhaila Peterson· Host1:17
In this episode, we're talking about marriage and relationships, so that should be interesting. Fortunately,