If you are in a romantic relationship, do you hold your significant other to a higher or lower standard than how you would hold... say an employee?

In this week's episode, Austin, Amer, and John have a pretty tough conversation that lots of us can relate to on the expectations and acceptance of your romantic partner. If your partner is continuously not fulfilling on their commitments to you, do you think it's possible that expectations should be renegotiated? Is it possible that your partner committed to certain things because they're afraid of disappointing you? Do you think there are hierarchies in romantic relationship? Should there be?... 

Opportunities that Amer mentioned: 

• There's an opportunity to be more flexible in defining a "man's role" and "woman's role"
• There's an oppportunity around excuse making and load management. Maybe you're creating a space where it's difficult for your significant other to have a conversation on their load managment. 
• For someone who is highly logical and analytical, there may be a lot of natural resistance against having an emotional understanding of a woman's needs. There is an opportunity to practice that emotional understanding to satisfy your significant other's emotional needs so that she's also satisfied in the relationship enough to reciprocate your logical needs. 
• When speaking about shooting averages we may not have resonable metrics to measuring our partner's success rate. There's an opportunity to see this relationship as less transactional. 

Extra Timestamps

• 31:45: When someone comes to work for John's company, it's the same life long commitment he feels to help them achieve their best life. 
• 1:05:15: What are you optimising for in life? Do you believe your relationship with your significant other is sourced from the need to optimize your business?
• 1:30:00: Opportunities Amer has mentioned

Resources from Gabe

• The Art of Loving

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