The Red Flags You Keep Ignoring! (Don't Let Men Treat You Like This!!)

This episode explores the psychology behind ignoring red flags in relationships, focusing on why people often sabotage themselves by overlooking signs of a potentially unhealthy relationship.

1. Ignoring red flags is often rooted in low self-esteem and past traumas.
2. Inconsistent behavior in relationships can be addictive, as it stimulates the emotional highs and lows that some mistake for passion.
3. Self-awareness and acceptance are crucial in recognizing and acting upon red flags.
4. Healthy relationships should not be based on a struggle or feel like a constant challenge.
5. Recognizing personal value is key to avoiding partners who may not treat you well.

1: Introduction

Hosts Sadia Khan and Matthew Hussey introduce the episode's theme on ignoring red flags in relationships. They discuss their personal experiences and professional insights on why this common issue occurs. Sadia Khan: "Ignoring red flags often stems from a low self-esteem that is rooted in one's past experiences." Matthew Hussey: "People often confuse emotional volatility with passion, which leads them to ignore obvious red flags."

2: The Psychology Behind the Behavior

This chapter dives into the psychological underpinnings of why individuals ignore red flags, including the roles of addiction to emotional highs and lows, and the impact of upbringing on relationship choices. Matthew Hussey: "The thrill of uncertainty can often be mistaken for genuine interest and excitement."

3: Breaking the Cycle

The final chapter discusses strategies for recognizing and addressing the tendency to ignore red flags. The hosts emphasize the importance of self-worth and choosing partners who align with one's values. Sadia Khan: "Understanding and valuing your self-worth is crucial in breaking the cycle of chasing relationships that are ultimately harmful."

1. Reflect on Your Relationship Patterns: Look back at your past relationships to identify any recurring issues or ignored red flags.
2. Seek Professional Help: If you find yourself repeatedly drawn to unhealthy relationships, consider consulting a psychologist.
3. Set Clear Boundaries: Know what you are willing to accept and what you are not. Communicate these boundaries clearly to your partners.
4. Practice Self-Love and Appreciation: Increase your self-esteem by engaging in activities that make you feel good about yourself.
5. Learn to Recognize Green Flags: Focus on positive qualities in potential partners that align with your values and relationship goals.

Welcome back to The School of Greatness! We have a very special episode for you today. For the first time ever, we're in the studio with two incredible relationship experts, Sadia Khan and Matthew Hussey, to explore the reasons you're still single and how to navigate the complexities of modern dating. Sadia is a psychologist and relationship coach who works with people around the world, and Matthew is a New York Times bestselling author renowned for his work in helping individuals build healthier relationships. Both are SOG fan favorites, so I'm thrilled to moderate this enlightening deep dive on relationships. Follow the show and stay tuned for part 2 and 3 of this round table discussion with Sadia and Matthew, now let’s dive in!

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Lewis Howes
I'm so excited because this is a first on the school of greatness, Sadia. This is what he brought us here for. What do you think he set this up for? All right, you guys ready? We have the inspiring Sadia Khan in the house who is an incredible psychologist and dating coach.

Sadia Khan
One of the best psychologists in the game, Sadia Khan. And we have Matthew Hussey. Matthew Hussey is a New York Times. Bestselling author, speaker, dating and relationships expert. And coach Matthew Hussey.

Lewis Howes
When someone is playing a game, either texting or on dates, what is that saying about them? They're entering relationship with a desire to preserve their ego rather than truly connect with that person. Wow, that's interesting. I cannot text you back for three days. And if you're the person who buys into the illusion that that must make me more valuable, then I can raise my value simply by ignoring you for three days.

Matthew Hussey
So there is self preservation, but in the process, it's self destruction. Wow. Okay. For you, it's that men want connection, but women are so jaded at this point that they're not offering it. Yeah, have to say that feels like the vast minority of women.

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Lewis Howes
Welcome back everyone to the school of greatness. Very excited about this special episode. We have two relationship experts and coaches in the house today. We have Sadia Khan and we have Matthew Hussey. Saadia is a psychologist and a relationship coach that works with people all over the world with well over 100 million views on your videos.

Matthew Hussey over a half a billion views on his videos. New York Times bestselling author and both of them, you both help people navigate relationships. Relationship dynamics, social human dynamics, dating scene, people in relationships going through breakups. So we're going to talk about a. Lot of these different things today and I'm so excited because this is a first on the school of greatness.

So thank you both for being here. I've known you both for a while. I know personal things about both of you, which I'm excited about. I'm not going to say the things, but I know personal things about both you. And I see the work you do professionally as well.

And I'm excited to see what unfolds here today. This first conversation is going to be talking about when you're single or dating. And there's a lot of talk about red flags. You see this almost every title of every video right now. What are the red flags?

And what I want to ask you guys first is about the green flags. And why do people tend to sabotage when they actually have green flags in front of them with a person they're dating, experiencing, getting to know why do some people tend to sabotage that when they actually have someone who's not toxic in front of them? And I'll start with ladies first. That when you see that or when someone sees that, I don't know if you have girlfriends or like, yeah, he was like just a great guy, but I sabotaged it. Why does that happen for men or women?

Is it because they're emotionally unavailable is because they've never seen someone in a healthy relationship with themselves before. Why would you say? I would say that the barrier to intimacy has become their self esteem. Unfortunately for them, and it happens to a lot of people, they have developed a core belief about themselves, either through their childhood or through adult relationships, where they believe that love should be a struggle, it should be difficult, and it shouldn't be smooth sailing. And when it is smooth and somebody does show them love and compassion, because they don't have love and compassion for themselves, they start to question the judgment of the person who is showing them love, and they start to think there's something wrong in that person.

Matthew Hussey
And the smoothness that they acquire in the relationship is something that they're just not used to. And they have attributed love to being chaotic, difficult, turbulent. When it's not like that, they just think that they haven't got an attachment. They think in order for me to be loved, I should be obsessing with them. I should be wondering what they're doing, be checking their social media.

I should be anxious when the anxiety is stripped of love. They think it's deprived of its fundamental ingredient, when really it's being infused with peace, which they're just not used to. Wow, that's interesting. I love that we started with this right now. I don't know if that's something that you would relate to or if you agree with or you think there's something else to add there.

Sadia Khan
No, I think it comes from different places. Familiarity is, you know, it drives us so often in life, and familiarity doesn't really care whether something is good or bad, just that it's known. And, like, I never used to. I remember in my twenties, I never used to understand what people meant when they said, like, fear of success. Because I was like, why would anyone be afraid of success?

And then I realized I probably was afraid of success. Like, anytime things got too hot, any time, like, I felt like everything was a runaway train, I would find myself getting nervous. And why was I getting nervous? Well, because it was just unknown. It was like I'd never.

I'd never gone that far before. I'd never been there. And unknown territory is just unknown territory. When things feel unfamiliar, we get afraid of them. They feel disconcerting.

They can feel boring, strange. And so it's our. A body has a way of searching for what is familiar. I also think it shouldn't be discounted that there are certain feelings that just feel good. What are those feelings?

Well, it's like eating pizza. Like eating pizza does feel good, even. Though it's bad for you. There is something it gives. There's something that foods that are bad for you or substances that are bad for you give you.

That is a feeling that is quite addictive and you want to chase it. And of course, a lot of us pay the price over time for chasing those things. And I think sometimes we have to acknowledge that there are certain kinds of people that feel good in the very beginning. There is a certain kind of charm, there is a certain kind of charisma that feels really good. Yeah.

Matthew Hussey
Inconsistency is addictive. Inconsistency. And even just like a kind of superficial charm can be exciting. Someone's at a dinner table and they tell you great stories and they captivate you. And there is a kind of like, you want to be around that person, speaking into that.

Lewis Howes
Then what would you say are the most addictive? I guess emotions that are unhealthy, that people get addicted to when they're dating and they're starting a relationship. What are those unhealthy addictions around emotions? In my personal experience of working with clients that come to me, particularly men, when they come to me and they're in these kind of addictive habits, they get addicted to shallow substances like appearance and sex. Usually when they find men, when they find themselves in emotionally abusive situations, it's because they've placed all of their satisfaction in her appearance and the sexual gratification they receive.

Matthew Hussey
And it's almost like a shortcut to an ego boost. And they place that on a pedestal, and that becomes their conflict resolution, is sex. It becomes their form of status, is that she gives them that appearance. When they walk around, they don't look for somebody on the same level of them in terms of appearance. They shoot above their shot.

They go a bit higher than what they should be going for. And as a result, they become like a slave and submissive to her behavior simply because she possesses that sexual quality that they've been craving for a really long time, particularly if they're a man who haven't had access to women throughout their childhood and throughout their life. And so when they do meet a beautiful girl, they allow her beauty to determine their attachment rather than her character. And that becomes very addictive from a male gaze, in my experience. And I don't know as to men, but does sex that much of a power over them where they can blur their vision on all other characteristics?

Lewis Howes
I hate to say this, but I'm guilty of this. It happens. Well, I mean, it's blinding for a period of time until it isn't. So it. And when you think that the character is also there, then you're like, wow, this is unbelievable.

But then, you know, I personally, you know, just experienced in my past, I was kind of blinded by that, the beauty and the sexual attraction. And then when I realized that certain values weren't consistent with words, they weren't matching over time, you get disinterested in the beauty. You're like, okay, does it take something. To snap men out of that when they're in that kind of intoxicated? Pain, pain, suffering, heartbreak?

Yeah, sadness, depression. You know, it's like a dis ease, whether it be an emotional disease or physical disease. For me, I think it was kind of both. Whereas, like, I had to just feel like, man, I don't feel myself. I feel like I'm giving up who I am to try to please someone else, and they're never happy.

No matter what I do, how much I change, who I become, it's not enough. And it's exhaust. It was exhausting. And I think that's when I realized, oh, okay. I chose a certain relationship based out of a wound.

Everything you were saying was like, speaking to my, like, wounded child was like, okay, yeah, no girls liked me when I was younger. You know, I didn't have to. Did you suffer with that because you were an athlete? No. You know, when I was in my teens, it changed.

But when I was younger, it was like, you didn't get the attention. So when I was choosing based out of a wounded me, it was like, okay, here's this beautiful opportunity or this experience or whatever it might be. And that was captivating in some ways. That was pulling me in, drawing me in. And it made you forgive other unacceptable behavior in the moment.

In the moment. But then you, after a period of time, it was like, okay, you wake up. I woke up. And I think those lessons allowed me to have wisdom and being like, okay, well, that's not really everything. Just beauty and sexual connection is not.

Does not necessarily mean long term happiness in a relationship. Maybe. Maybe it is, but those has to be other values and things that match, things like that. It shouldn't be the primary filter, unfortunately. And you're saying that a lot of men that you're working with that you see get addicted to sexual connection or.

Matthew Hussey
Beauty and attractiveness and how it makes them feel. Yeah, they'll come to me believing it's some childhood trauma and they'll think it's that. But really, it boils down to how much of a priority. They've made sex and beauty. And I know it's difficult in this day and age with the advent of pornography and social media, where beauty is the main kind of component of women that we're seeing, but it makes them stuck in a way that they can't explain to themselves.

And only when I say, is the sexual chemistry the best you've had? And they're like, yes, it's the best I've ever had. The moment I hear that, I'm like, that's why it's become your glue. They're addicted to it. They're addicted to it.

Lewis Howes
So, and this is something that I, that I think people should try if they're, if they've found themselves in kind of addictive patterns in previous relationships. Try being with someone and not having sex for a period of time. Wait as long as you can. I'm not saying wait forever, but, you know, wait a month, two, three months for me. You know, with Martha, we waited for a long time and allowed me to say, do I actually want to spend time with this person if we don't have sex?

And I would want everyone to ask themselves the question, if I did not have sex with the person I'm dating right now, would I want to be with them? Exactly. Or would it be too much stress and trouble? Would I be addicted to them? Yeah, exactly.

I don't know. What do you see women in your perspective, struggling with in terms of the emotional addictions in dating or in relationship patterns? What is that? Is it sex chemistry or you seeing something else with the women you work with? I was going to say, I feel like you guys are giving women too much credit.

Sadia Khan
You're letting them off a little. I don't get access as much to the female perspective, and it's the same kind of you would imagine. I don't think there's. I'm not seeing a huge difference between men and women in this department at all. Oh, wow.

I think that women, women get attracted sexually. They get attracted to someone's looks, to, you know, is it more the sexual. Or the material or the status that women are attracted to? Like, here's a beautiful, handsome man, a sexy man. Or is it more, oh, he's got status and money, and that makes him sexy.

I think the myth is that it's just all women go around looking for status and money, and when they see status walk into a room, they're like, yes, please. And if that were true, then every. I agree. Every rich dude that walked into a room would be the hottest property around. And that's not true.

A lot of guys who make a lot of money get to that point and realize, oh, my God, I need help in meeting women because I'm not good at it. They struggle the most. They struggle, really, because they've spent. So many men spend their whole lives trying to achieve a certain level of status or money, thinking that at some point, there's going to be a door they're going to open in the money world or the status world. And when they walk through that door, all of a sudden, women are going to come flocking.

And then they find that they're the lonely guy at the party who no one's talking to. And, oh, it turns out it still matters to be able to go and talk to someone. It still matters to be able to carry yourself in a certain way where there's something about you or there's an ability in conversation. So I don't. Or I keep losing out to the 25 year old dude, a hot surfer who's broke, who walks into the room and getting the attention.

So I just. I think there is this myth among men that all our problems will be figured out if we could just make enough money and if we could just get enough status. And I think there's this myth among women that, or about women, that they're not interest. Like, they're not driven in by charisma and looks and sexiness and, you know, they don't care about those. Men are superficial.

They care about those things. Women don't care about those things. Not my experience. My experience of women is that they're just as interested in all of those superficial things that can lure any of us away from deeper values or how someone treats us. It's not to say that there's not an appeal for some people to someone who's got their life under control.

But, no, I don't think we should let women off so lightly when it comes to being attracted to the superficial, interesting. Now, Saudi. You've said that you work mostly with men or more men seem to watch your content, and you work one on one with more with men. Matthew, you've leaned more towards working with women, your content towards women, although both of you guys work with any human being in all genders. But I'm curious, Matthew, with you, when a woman has gone through your workshop or maybe watched your content or been a part of your community for a while, and then they say, okay, I'm ready to go out there and meet a guy.

Lewis Howes
And there seems like a really healthy, good kind, compassionate, value driven, spiritual, healthy, conscious man in front of me. And for whatever reason, she's unable to be excited about that. What is that saying about that woman in your mind? If she is unable to lean into the green flags of a healthy potential mate in front of her, does she still need work to do? Is she just not emotionally available herself?

What does she need to start the process of doing so? When she sees someone who's healthy, she can actually be attracted to them and work towards building a relationship? I think it's usually a sign that for anyone, men or women alike, that we're not truly putting our well being first. We think the source of our worth is outside of us. And we see someone who looks like the kind of equivalent of a VIP nightclub or a vip waitlist and we, you know, there is an instinct.

Sadia Khan
There is an instinct we all have. You walk past ten restaurants and one of them super busy, and they say, we can see you in 3 hours. We're not available. There's an instinct that says that, you know, maybe this is the one I want to eat at. You might have passed ten places already, but the one with the three hour waitlist, there's something about that that makes us go, maybe, well, maybe we can hang around for 3 hours.

Maybe it is that good. And the problem is that in love and dating, the people who make it feel like there's a three hour waitlist or a six month wait list, or that they have all the options in the world, they give the impression of being the best meal in town. Interesting, but it doesn't necessarily add up. There's a lot of ways to create that illusion. I could not text you back for three days.

And if you're the person who buys into the illusion that if I'm inconsistent with my communication, that must make me more valuable, then I can raise my value not by being any more valuable in real terms, but simply by ignoring you for three days. It requires zero calories for me to make myself more valuable in the eyes of someone who's chasing that kind of value and so, or someone who might. Be wounded and needs that value or. Is coming from that place of their model for love. Is that it is inconsistent, is that it has to be fought for tooth and nail, is that scraps?

Is, is all you can really expect. And, and also, you know, again, to talk about those feelings that we get in certain situations, if there's someone whose value we've started to raise in our minds because they've made themselves unavailable, which is a very common instinct, it's a very bad instinct, but it's a very common one, that someone's less available. So I start to attribute more value to them. Or if we attribute more value to them when they become unavailable, that we now get anxious because we really want to secure them because they're valuable. We sit there wondering, how do I secure them?

How do I secure them? How do I secure them? Ruminating, obsessing, even ruminating is a form of investment. Yeah, right. Because the moment, if you're thinking about how to solve a problem non stop, the problem feels like it's really important.

You're investing in a person. Even though you're not with them, you're investing in them, in your mind. So at the moment, like, five days later, after all of that work you've been doing and all of that obsession and all of that fear and all of that anxiety, when you get a message from them, it can be next to nothing. It can be, what's up? And you've got all this adrenaline, and.

You'Ve been trying to figure out how to solve this riddle of getting them back into your life, and you get a two word message. It feels like the most important thing in the world. And, of course, when you get that rush of blood to the head, how can it not feel kind of euphoric? How can it not give you an extraordinary feeling? And when you get that extraordinary feeling and those chemicals are released, you go, oh, my God, I feel so strongly for this person.

But you don't feel strongly for this person. You feel strongly for the dynamic. There's a big difference between those two things. So, you know, it's about, what am I chasing here? Am I chasing a feeling?

Am I chasing an idea of value? And what is that value based on? Is it based on someone I think is just rare and difficult to get? Or is value based on how great of a person someone is in my life, how much they actually invest in me, what kind of teammate they are, what kind of energy they are. You know that if we start valuing that more, which deep down derives from us valuing ourselves more, because you don't.

If you. If you don't value yourself and you just value a feeling, well, you may as well do a bunch of drugs all day, right? Because you just. That's. It's not drugs might hurt me, but I'm valuing the feeling, not myself.

If I value myself, then I think, what do I need to give myself in order to feel better? That's a much more conscious and intentional path to take it's harder, but it's, it's somewhere that leads somewhere much happier. I. Sometimes I've had situations, you know, you can take it outside the realm of love life. That's situation in situations in business or work where, you know, let's say someone asks me to do their tv show or their podcast, and let's say it's just something I've always wanted to do.

Like I've always wanted to go on this show. There is an instinct when you get that email that says, call them right now, call them immediately, tell them we're ready. Tell them we could do it this afternoon, like we could do it now. Because if they want, I'll get ready. Like, you know, I'm halfway across the world, but I'll fly there tomorrow.

There's that instinct. And, you know, if that opportunity goes away because you didn't do it tomorrow, there's a feeling in us that beats ourselves up and says, see, I blew it, but it was never yours. Yes, it was a fly by night, like drive by superficial opportunity. If it can't wait a day for you to email back and a couple of weeks for you to book it in, then you have to decide what your relationship is with opportunities in general. Do I want to have that relationship with an opportunity where the moment an opportunity comes through the door, I am that opportunities hostage?

Is that the relationship I want to have with opportunity in my life? Whether it's opportunity in business, whether it's opportunity in love, and we have to make that decision. And I got to a point in my life and I. It's not. I never get, like, activated in that way because something big can come through and I'll go, I'll feel myself going to that place.

But these days I'm like, what relationship do I want to have with opportunities in my life? Well, I'm. I'm never going to be hostage to an opportunity. So if it comes through and it happens organically, through just normal communication, a normal cadence in a consistent way, and it happens, then wonderful. If it doesn't, then frankly, I don't want to know.

Matthew Hussey
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Lewis Howes
I wanted to ask a follow up on emotional availability, and it seems like women used to be more in society, emotionally available in, I guess, life and wanting more relationship and emotionally available and needing more from a man. But I'm curious today, from both of your perspectives, who are more emotionally available today? Is it men or women? What do you think? I think it's tricky to answer because the men I work with, the majority of the time, they're actually looking for something stable, and they can't seem to access it with the women in this day and age.

Matthew Hussey
And I don't know if what's happened is because hookup culture has made women immune to connection. Now they're kind of used to men just coming and leaving and not calling them and not labeling it, that they've always come into dating with that expectation. And when women lose the kind of driving force of the connection, men don't know how to lead emotional connection. So as a result, we've got endless broken relationships occurring. So I don't know if women are breaking their connection because they want to or because they've been conditioned to because of tinder and bumble, which has just created a bunch of people who haven't really got the skills to maintain long lasting connections, all finding each other and then breaking up with each other, finding each other and breaking up with each other.

I've had clients say to me, I met this beautiful girl, and when I met her and we hooked up, she was like, you can go now if you want. I know you want to go home. And he said, no, I want to get to know you. But she was so used to men being in that state with her, that they've taken relationships and seen them as kind of vacations from their real world, and they all get back to their real world once the weekend is over. So I think it's more societies condition people to not look for connection.

And because men tend to place the acceleration of connection in the women's hands, and they're so used to it not being that direction, they've lost control of that, and it's now kind of fizzling out for both genders. Interesting. Do you feel like, do people actually want to be in a long term relationship, a committed relationship, or do they want to just have the feeling of a relationship for a weekend and be able to have it with multiple people, but never fully go deep with people? It depends what she values in her life. In this day and age, you can be 22 up until 42, so you can still have vacations whenever you want.

You can still kind of live an Instagram kind of lifestyle, you can still go out with your friends. There's no kind of shame in being a woman who's a bit older, not married, no kids, you can still enjoy your life. So if that's something, if she values independence and she values freedom, then she's not going to be looking for connection. She's going to place connection beneath what she values in life, and that's men and women. I would say that applies to both.

But if somebody values and recognizes that their root of happiness is their relationships, and their true happiness comes from when they don't need external stimulation and they don't need vacations, and they don't need all of this, they actually want someone that they can stay home and get bored and do nothing with. If that's what they value in life, that's it will depend on what they value. And what they value will depend on what they've experienced the most around them. So if they've experienced people showing them investment, they'll probably value connection more. But if they've experienced being somebody short term, freeing every weekend, they'll start to get immune to connection and invested in stimulation instead.

Interesting. What have you noticed or seen around? I don't know. I find it hard to. So you're.

Sadia Khan
For you, it's that men want connection, but women are so jaded at this point that they're not offering it. Yeah, I feel like they now just go into it with a mentality that this man is probably going to be seeing other girls, he's probably going to be liking a bunch of pictures, he's probably going to be dating loads of girls on Tinder. I'm going to catch his dating profile, still be active. So instead of being the idiot in this situation, I'm going to take control and I'm going to replicate his behavior. And as a result, they're almost like cheat first before being cheated on.

Matthew Hussey
And that's become the mentality. And I think social media has had an impact on that as well. But it's almost like women are like, I'm no longer being the girl that cries over a cheating boyfriend. I'd rather be the one that has a backup boyfriend than be on the receiving end of this humiliation. I have to say that feels like the vast minority of women.

Yeah. And I might be. Here's where I might be on this jaded end, because I get the jaded men who have experienced those women, I probably lack access to the ones that are actually trying to just build a nice, healthy connection. It also feels like an interesting place to kind of pinpoint the issue, because I would say that, that even if what you said is true for the majority of women, which I think is the majority of women, are actually quite the opposite of that. The issue is, I would still circle back to the issue as one of male emotional unavailability.

Sadia Khan
Because what we're saying is that there's so many, like, I'm not even sure I subscribe to this, but in that theory, there's so many emotionally unavailable men that they've managed to make the entire population of women cynical to the point where they're now going, God, like, I'm so. I so don't believe in the idea of a relationship anymore, that I'm just gonna mirror that behavior. Do you think men. So the issue would still lie with men if that was the case? I would argue it's more that the men, the women want.

Matthew Hussey
I would say that the tiny minority of men that most women want are the ones that because of the alternatives and the options, they lack the investment and as a result, the women's experiences. All men are like this, but there's so many nice men, just like there's so many nice women, but people aren't giving those people as much of a chance. So it's almost like the popular kids in school are making the whole school look bad. But aren't men doing the same thing? Absolutely.

I would agree 100%. If women are going for the top 1% of men, men are going for the top 1% of women, and both are going to have a harder time being emotionally available than other people. Because that's just a natural kind of, when you have choice and a lot of it, then you're naturally going to be more difficult for, and especially if you know you have 90% of people chasing after you, that's going to be a harder place to be available. So I just don't, I don't know that I see a difference between the sexes when it comes to that. The only thing I would say is, even with men, not only are the top 1% going for the top 1% of women, even the lower end, the bottom 1% are still going for the top 1% through onlyfans and pornography.

And so they're kind of soothing their emotional unavailability through pseudo relationships. So it's almost like the mid range is there, but they're usually spoken for. So women in the dating pool are either experienced, the top 1% who have loads of options, or the real bottom that have very little options but are so not used to human connection that they're a bit more addicted to pornography in video games. And the mid range is more like they're already in committed relationships. They're the hard ones to find.

They're the ones with relationship skills, they're. Already relationships, they already got kids, they're married. By that rationale we're talking about, 98% of men are emotionally available. But you would say they might be committed already. Yes.

Sadia Khan
I mean, I see good. If that's true, if what you said is true, I see nothing but good news there. That the majority, the vast majority of men are great guys who are emotionally. Available, but they may not be what women want. They may not have the skills, they.

Lewis Howes
May not have the communication abilities, they may not. They might be lacking other things. They may not have maybe the financial. I think height is a huge one. I honestly like how big is height for women?

Matthew Hussey
I would say, like really though, are. Women that superficial to think that height is that important for them? Depending on her height and her level of beauty? I would just say that like sometimes I meet men who are like 5453 and they'll say to me, I really, really want a beautiful girl. In my personal experience with beautiful women, what happens with them is they used to every man super tall because that's all they've ever experienced.

They don't know how to compromise on attractiveness because they've never really needed to. So they see the world through the lens of. I didn't know men come in a different size. So they can be very shallow with that. Interesting.

But even unfortunately, I think height is to women what facial beauty is to men. So it kind of has that similar impact. It's not definitely. It has a similar impact. I mean, you have a lot of women that come to your retreats.

Lewis Howes
Do they say height is a factor for them or they, you know, are all women there that are just like, I'll take a guy shorter than me and it's fine? I think. I mean, I tend to meet a lot of people who have reached a point in their lives where they're bringing a kind of awareness to their love life, where they're saying, I want to meet someone. I'm not 22 years old, and showing up with this checklist of superficial things, conscious about it. But now they're older, though, and they're like, I can't find a guy.

I'm willing to kind of spread my options wider. Now.

Sadia Khan
I would say that we all get to that point where we go, are the things that I once chased really, do they matter? Do they make any difference to my actual quality of life in a relationship? And height is an interesting thing. If you're a very tall woman, then it's natural, I think, for a lot of women to want someone who's of their height or not drastically different in that sense. But, you know, I think a lot of people just get to the point where they go, this isn't the defining factor anymore.

In the same way that a lot of guys realize chasing the prettiest girl at school is I have to grow out of that because that doesn't make her the best partner. It doesn't make her a great person to spend time with. It doesn't. She might be, but it doesn't. It's not automatic.

And so I think it's a common thing for everybody to start to let go of some of those superficial factors. But I do want to just touch again on talking about who's more emotionally unavailable, because I do. My experience of women is that they really.

There certainly are a group of people on both sides who think they are emotionally available, but are perhaps not. Yeah, but what makes them that? If they think they are but they're. Not, what makes them unavailable? What makes them emotionally unavailable?

I think it could be any number of things. I think for some people it's. They're terrified of just getting hurt. So the idea of letting someone close enough to really hurt them is the scariest thing in the world. They want love.

Lewis Howes
They want to feel seen and acknowledged and connected, but they're afraid of it at the same time. Well, they're afraid of the damage someone could do if they got in. And so for that kind of person, what they need is, like, a level of safety that is actually really hard for anyone to achieve. Because if I don't let you in, and I'm like, I'm not gonna let you in until you make me feel really safe. But you don't, you know, I haven't really let you in enough for you to even feel that connected to me, you know?

Sadia Khan
Or, by the way, something happens four weeks into knowing someone where they forget to text you back for a night, which is human and happens, but what was a mistake for you, for me, is like an existential threat. Like, oh, no, I've been getting attached to this person for the last four weeks. They now haven't texted me. They don't like me. What have I done here?

And then I say, well, you know what? Screw this person. I'm not going to text them back for the next three days, you know, like, they can now. I'm going to give them that medicine back. And it's not that this person's a bad person, it's just that they're so afraid that it's like, I can't risk you doing the damage you can do that's been done to me in the past, whether as a child or whether in a formative relationship.

I can't risk you getting that close again. So that's a desperate desire for love and connection, but it presents as emotional unavailability. When someone is playing a game, either texting or on dates, and they're playing a game, what is that saying about them? If they're trying to play a game. They'Re entering relationship with a desire to preserve their ego rather than truly connect with that person.

Matthew Hussey
It's more important that they appear desirable than they create something that is desirable between the two of them. So if it's a case of somebody hasn't text me in a couple of days, I'm not going to text them in a couple of days, but I'm going to post a really pretty picture on online. Or if a man is like, oh, she didn't answer me back, or she didn't compliment me, no, I'm not going to give her any compliments. What you're really signaling is, I'm so desperate to be loved that I'll push it away and make you think that I don't want it. Just so then if you don't, if you reject me first, I can feel like I saved my soul by not investing too much.

So there is self preservation, but in the process of self destruction, sadly so. And I've been there. We've all been there. I think we've all been there. We don't want to look like the idiot.

We don't want to look needy. But I always just say to people that if in the process of communicating your needs, you lose somebody or they think something less of you, you're just filtering out the wrong people anyway. The right person will appreciate the communication, they'll reciprocate the communication, and you'll build something. The wrong person will, you know, be scared or run away or whatever it is, but you don't want the wrong person anyway. So it's a good filtering process.

Effective communication is great for filtering out the wrong people. It's so interesting because, because when I was starting to date Martha, my fiance, just early the first date, I was just like, I'm gonna share, not all of me, but kind of all of me up front. No gains. Yeah, no games. Just like, this is who I am.

Lewis Howes
This is my flaws, this is my mistakes. This is the things I'm working on. This is the things I'm good at. All these things. And I kinda was completely unattached to the results.

If she likes me, cool. If she doesn't like me, at least she knows who I am. Yeah. And it was freeing. It felt freeing to be like, okay, this is me.

I'm not playing any games. I was just like, if you like me, cool. If you don't like me, cool. Yeah. And that gave me freedom to be myself, and I think it allowed me to see, does she really like me for kind of all of me, of what I'm in my life.

Matthew Hussey
You weren't trying to impress her. You were trying to access a healthy relationship. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's what the goal should be.

Lewis Howes
And it was almost like if she didn't want to hang out with me again, I wasn't going to be upset or hurt that she wasn't into me. I'd have been like, okay, this just didn't work out. I think that comes from, you know, you having done a lot of work on yourself to get to the point where you had, you felt pretty accepting of yourself at that stage. Yeah, I couldn't do that in my twenties. No, because I think the game playing originates from this feeling of I'm starting from behind.

Sadia Khan
I'm starting from not being good enough. So how can I manufacture a dynamic that is going to raise my value? How can I show my best self? Or how can I create a mirage of a self that doesn't exist. Interesting.

You know, what am I trying to do by not texting you back for three days? I'm trying to create this idea of myself as this extremely busy, high demand person as opposed to the person that I am. And by the way, if I was that really busy, high in demand person, I probably still, still wouldn't wait three days to take. Hey, I'm running from meeting to meeting, but I wanted to say hi and how's your day? Because you were still, even if you were that person and it wasn't where your value was, you didn't put your value in being a busy and important person, then you still wouldn't be weaponizing it.

But the game playing is a way to kind of manufacture or engineer a selfie that doesn't exist, a self that you think would be the most attractive you that you're not really. Whereas you came into your relationship with Martha going, I'm all right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right. Maybe I'm not perfect, but I'm all right.

And I come to think of it, I quite like me. I don't mind myself. And if I find someone who likes me for me, that is. That is far preferable to finding someone who's into me because of this mirage I've created that I now have to sustain. Here's a question for both of you.

Lewis Howes
Both of you give advice to men and women on relationships, but I'm curious, what is the biggest challenge that you had overcome in your twenties, in your own relationships, one for each of you? That maybe is a pattern. Looking back now, you could say, oh, this is something I did, did in relationships or when I was single. Maybe I played a little bit of the games, maybe I did this, maybe I was emotionally available. But what was the thing that you think held both of you back the most in your twenties from finding love?

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So they'll say one of the tricks we do is we put her as my WhatsApp picture, but I might text other girls, but she feels calmer in that moment. Or I text her on a night out, but, you know, I do what I want. She feels calmer when I say that, so I know all the soothing techniques might have a malicious background to it. So I would go in assuming men's their ways of soothing you and connecting with you has a malicious intent towards it. They were still off dating other people or talking to other girls.

It was just to pacify you. It's not true. So because maybe it speaks of the men I used to know and hang around with, but that would be their kind of play. They would kind of know this is how you work with them. So what would happen is I would always have this mentality is, you can't fool me.

I'm Sadia. You can't fool. I know everything. So the problem would be, is I would go, I would meet people with the intention of showing them that I'm more intelligent than they think I am. So my process would be to prove how you can't trick me.

So I'd look for clues, connect dots that aren't there. But it wouldn't be a genuine, like, why don't I just try and enjoy this connection and just see what's going on and just trust the intention instead, it's like, no, no, no, I know this means, and you're trying to prove to them how smart I am about human connection whilst not actually creating human connection. Interesting. So it's almost like you could have been with the nicest, best guy who really loved you and wanted to show you the best of him, but you were like, there's something behind the scenes that you're doing. I would try and check what online behavior they've got, what last seen on WhatsApp, and then connect some dots in my head and then assume the worst.

And then think, oh, well, at least by assuming the worst, I can't get too attached. And then I'm so smart, but secretly I'm craving the connection that I'm pushing away. Yeah. When did you realize that was a behavior or a pattern of yours that you were able to say, okay, let me separate myself or start to heal or process from this, start shifting it? I thought it would be a permanent condition.

I thought that I've just been grained with it. But I do think having a secure partner, their level of transparency and their level of security in themselves, and that attitude that you demonstrate with Marsha, where is. Look, if you're going to play games, you're most welcome to leave. I'm not going to beg anybody, but if you want to have a good human connection, you are most welcome to take a seat on my table. Meeting somebody with that kind of mentality made me realize I don't need to come into relationships.

With all this defense and armor in my back pocket, I can actually put the weapons down and actually enjoy the connection and trust the connection and also having a life I like living with or without the connection. When I felt like this was going to be my identity, being married to this person is going to be my identity, it would mean that I would almost become an investigator and this relationship would be everything. And I need to figure out Xyz. But when you have a life worth living outside of the relationship, it's like whatever's in darkness will come to light at some stage anyway. And when it does come to light, I will still be fine.

I'm still who I am. I've still got a life worth living. So it's a combination of finding a secure partner and having a life worth living outside of the relationship. And if something happens where he's unfaithful or out of integrity, it will come out on its own. You don't have to be constantly investigating to try to sagging.

The thing is, if they do come out with that mentality, and they do are cheating, whatever. They're not the person I fell in love with, so I'm not missing out on anything. I know it would be painful. God forbid, if it did happen, I know it'd be painful. But part of me, it's, the person I loved is no longer existing.

So it's okay. What am I attaching to anymore? And we let go. It's just going to redirect you. So before, I just think it's all encompassing and it would ruin my life.

I will still have a life worth living, and this person's not worthy of that life worth living if they show me to be that person. Wow, that's interesting. Okay, before I follow up more on that, I want to ask Matthew, what was the biggest struggle that you had? Do men do all of those tricks that I did, or is that more of a girl thing? Do all of what do men ever do?

Like, checking online and when they're last? I think it's more. I think, I mean, I'll speak from my personal experience. I think you used to be, like, anxious and be more jealous and be like, oh, what's she doing? Why is she out with this girl, this guy?

Lewis Howes
You know, be more like, anxious or. Jealous in the real world. But I wasn't like, you're doing something. I know it. I connected the dots.

Matthew Hussey
It's no investigation. It's just, if it's, yeah, it's more insecure, right? I mean, I think there's probably a decent number of men who will investigate. Wouldn't write that behavior off. But for you, what was the thing that you struggled with in relationships or dating?

Sadia Khan
You know, I think I had a habit of staying in relationships that perhaps I didn't, I knew weren't right for me long term. But I stayed because I was insecure and was afraid to be on my own and really struggled to my worth was far too tied to whether I had someone in my life. So I obviously hurt people that way, because you stay in situations where you are inevitably going to end up hurting someone, but you don't feel brave enough to get out to end it. Yeah. Yeah.

And then when they do eventually end, you haven't fixed anything about yourself. And so instead of going, now's probably the time that I should work on this instinct. I have to immediately go out and find someone new. I immediately went out and tried to find someone new because I didn't. I wasn't brave enough at that point in my life to really confront the kind of the real work that I needed to do to be okay in my own company, to really like myself.

Matthew Hussey
So would you wait for her to break up with you, or would you just end it at some point? No, I would. I would typically get to a point of ending it. Okay. But, like, after far longer than you should have.

Sadia Khan
Yeah, me too. Yeah. And, you know, probably if I was being honest with myself, there would have been things that I maybe would have said in the first place. This just isn't, you know, wonderful people. I've had the.

I've been lucky to have relationships with truly remarkable, lovely people, but, you know, I wasn't right for them, and they weren't right for me, but I was not brave enough to do anything about that. And I think, as well, even the part of me at that time that may be judged. Judged? Well, they're not right for me because of this and because of this and because of this. Even the things that I decided were not right for me were kind of also signs that I hadn't really accepted myself, because I truly believe in my bones.

The more in life you accept yourself and every part of yourself, the more you start to see. You see more people as wonderful, not less. I don't subscribe to this idea that when you do work on yourself, your paw shrinks. Like, a lot of people say that, like, I've just done so much self growth that it's hard to find anyone anymore because no one's done as much self growth as me and I. Or your circle gets so small, and they kind of brag about their lack of connection now that they've healed.

Yeah. And I always found that to be really strange, because for me, any. Like, any work I've done to give myself more compassion and make more space for what I've seen previously as the hideous, detestable, contemptible parts of myself has always made me make more space for other people, because I go, oh, God, if I can accept these things about me, I better accept them about you, too. And I think there was a time in my life where I couldn't make space for those parts of me, so I just denied them. Of course, when you then see them in other people, you go, yuck, that's not.

What's that? I don't want to. That's not for me. But what you're really saying is, this part of me isn't for me. And I hadn't figured that out for myself yet.

So even when I say that person wasn't right for me or whatever, even then there's a kind of like, I'm not saying I would have been ready or that they, on a fundamental level, would have been the right person, but the reasons I might have been telling myself that they were wrong were often a judgment that came from me still judging myself in really nasty ways that I hadn't figured out yet. So it makes for a bad combination when you're judging people too harshly and deciding reasons not to be with them based on those judgments. And at the same time, you're too afraid to be alone and do the work to accept yourself, because that will have. Have you just jumping from one relationship to another, to another to another. It's a bad sign.

Matthew Hussey
But, Matthew, you were coaching in your twenties as well, like, at the same. Time making YouTube videos since 19. Oh, wow, okay. 1917 years. Did that age your dating experience or just kind of.

Did you manage to compartmentalize? Like. No, I think it was probably net negative. Really? Yeah.

Sadia Khan
I mean, it's not a, it's not a desirable place to be, is it? To be kind of to be as a career, making videos every week, helping other people, but while you're already feeling shame for things you haven't figured out, but you're teaching others and you don't feel you can be vulnerable about the things you're still working on. I don't think everyone who helps other people needs to have every single thing figured out. But if you haven't given yourself space to be honest about the things you haven't figured it out, then you're in trouble because you're having to live this very private world of shame over here, trying to figure things out in private, which makes it hard, because when you figure things out in private all the time, you don't get support. Yeah.

And, you know, I think over time, my, you know, I, one of my favorite things about my relationship with people in general, whether it's my audience or the audience watching this, or is that very honest relationship of I can truly be myself and it doesn't take away from the things that I know, but it adds color and complexity, and it certainly takes me off of any kind of pedestal, which these days, I'm all too happy to be taken off of. It's one of the best things about it. But there was a time where in my, the way I was in my public life mirrored the way I was in my private life, which was that if I were to share with people some of the issues that I struggled with my audience, the people that know me won't love me anymore, or they won't want to listen to me anymore, they won't be connected to me anymore. But that was the same as the. That was the same struggle that I didn't know I was having at the time, but was in my private life, which is, if I speak this insecurity to the person that I'm with, if I truly get vulnerable about that, and I stopped playing the hero in the relationship or in the dating process, then this person will very quickly go off me and they won't be able to hold space for Matthew, the complicated person who is sometimes heroic and also is sometimes kind of pathetic.

You know, like, they won't be able to make space for those two things. They'll just see me as pathetic from now on. And what's and when someone isn't willing to share their vulnerabilities or insecurities in a relationship and they only show their best self, can you have a truly healthy relationship, do you think? I don't think you can have a very connected one. And you can't have a.

You can't. You can't ever really feel like anyone knows you. That's the problem. In my experience, it leads to a double life. It leads to a person having one Persona that they present to their loved ones and a completely double life.

Matthew Hussey
And the double life is not even their true self. The second person isn't their true self. It's actually a release from the first person that they're pretending to be. Because when you're pretending to be somebody, it's very exhausting. So it's almost like wearing a mask the whole day and a bit like when you're tired from work, you might do something extravagant just to relax.

So what happens is, because they're wearing a mask in their relationships, when they take the mask off, they still don't go down to their baseline true self. They actually go more to their vices. Because they need a release. So they go more down the double path where they might lead to affairs. It might lead to a completely different type of affairs with a completely different person that ignites a completely different feeling.

They're almost just running away from their true self. So nobody gets to access their true selves, even themselves. And then they don't know who they really are, but they look for different peoples to escape who they are and just find different identities and different people. So it really leads to a confused identity. It's very draining for people who can't be themselves.

With their partner. I'll see people who are super successful. Maybe they're a doctor or a surgeon, have a married life, kids, everything. But because maybe they can't be themselves or their partner, they find themselves either addicted to drugs or addicted to escorts and prostitutes. And doing this, finding themselves in environments that are completely not where they want to be, but that double life has taken such a toll in them that they need an escape.

Lewis Howes
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