I Wish You Knew

By Adam Lane Smith & Andrey KorikovSociety & Culture Relationships

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August 04 What Psychiatry Gets Wrong About Attachment and Mental Health | Dr. Aaron Kheriaty & Adam Lane Smith
Adam Lane Smith sits down with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, psychiatrist, medical ethicist, and author of Making the Cut, to break down what modern psychiatry is getting catastrophically wrong, why the chemical imbalance model is not just incomplete but actively harmful, and what actually heals people when medications and therapy alone are not enough.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why reducing mental illness to a chemical imbalance in the brain has produced a generation of people who believe they will never get better
2- Why psychiatrists are seeing numbers on a sheet instead of people and what the system that created that looks like from the inside
3- Why physical activity four times a week is as effective as antidepressants for mild to moderate depression and why nobody tells patients that
4- Why relationships are the single strongest predictor of outcomes even in the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia
5- Why people in third world countries with schizophrenia often do better than people in industrialized nations and what that reveals
6- Why modern life has become voluntary solitary confinement and why dopamine binges have replaced human connection
7- Why the loneliness epidemic cannot be solved by more therapists and what actually has to happen instead
8- What Dr. Kheriaty would change about American psychiatry if he had absolute power and control
If you have ever been handed a prescription and sent home and felt like something essential was being missed, this conversation will show you exactly what that something was.
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Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of five books, including most recently, Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine (2025). He is a Fellow & Director of the Program in Bioethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He also serves in consulting and advisory roles at the Brownstone Institute, the Zephyr Institute, the Paul Ramsey Institute, and the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.
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1 hr 12 min
July 23 What It Takes to Win an Avoidant Man's Heart | Brandon & Dana Wade
He built one of the most controversial dating sites in the world. He told every woman upfront on day one that he did not believe in marriage. And then he met Dana. And everything changed.
Adam Lane Smith sits down with Brandon Wade, founder of Seeking.com, and his partner Dana to break down what it actually takes to win an avoidant man's heart.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why Brandon spent years believing love was a concept invented by poor people and what changed his mind
2- Why radical honesty on a dating profile attracted the right person faster than anything else
3- Why dating apps give you quantity but why quality requires something completely different
4- Why 65 percent of couples once met through family and friend networks and what the collapse of that has done to modern relationships
5- What women are actually looking for underneath the surface and why financial safety is not gold digging
6- Why men who pursue skill mastery and competence are automatically more attractive and how Brandon proved it
7- Why avoidant men build layers of ego and what the one thing is that finally brings those walls down
8- What secure attachment actually looks like inside a real relationship between two people who almost never found each other
If you have ever wondered whether an avoidant man can actually change, this conversation is your answer.
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58 min
July 23 13 Habits That Build Emotional Resilience | Amy Morin and Adam Lane Smith
She lost her mother to a brain aneurysm. Then three years to the day, her 26 year old husband died of a heart attack. She was a therapist who had studied grief and still felt completely unprepared for what it actually felt like.
Adam Lane Smith sits down with Amy Morin, therapist and bestselling author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do”, to break down what mental strength actually is, why resilience is not the same as just bouncing back, and what people with anxious attachment specifically need to hear about building the capacity to survive hard seasons without losing themselves.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why resilience is not about bouncing back and what mental strength actually looks like from the inside
2- Why stopping certain behaviors is often easier and more powerful than starting new ones
3- What learned helplessness is and why understanding it changed everything about how Amy works with people
4- Why anxiously attached people are uniquely vulnerable to the 13 thinking traps that drain mental strength
5- Where the line is between helping someone grow stronger and accidentally making them helpless
6- Why chasing someone who disrespects you costs you more than the relationship ever gave you
7- What to do when you are at the bottom and even the thought of doing 13 things sounds like too much
8- How to teach your children emotional regulation without hiding your hard moments from them
If you have ever sat on the worst day of your life and wondered how you are going to get through it, this is the conversation you need to hear.
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1 hr 5 min
July 09 What Divorce Does to a Man’s Psychology | Adam Lane Smith & Ralph Brewer
He did everything right. Stayed loyal. Showed up for his family. And one day in Florida he found out his wife had been having an affair. That was the moment everything he thought he knew about himself collapsed.
Adam Lane Smith sits down with Ralph Brewer, author of The Dead Bedroom Fix and founder of Dad Starting Over, to break down what actually happens to a man after infidelity and divorce, why so many men get stuck trying to recover alone, and what the woman who loves a divorced man needs to understand about the fear he is still carrying.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why discovering infidelity destroys a man's existential safety at the deepest level
2- Why so many men attach themselves to the wrong woman and ignore red flags for years without knowing why
3- Why a man who hates his wife still tries to pursue her and what he is actually looking for
4- Why the divorced man is hesitant to commit again and what his hesitation is really about
5- What the woman dating a divorced man needs to know about the wounds he is still carrying 6- Why men try to recover alone and why that almost always makes things worse
7- What the single most important thing is a man in a dark place after divorce can do right now 8- Why the lone wolf mentality is one of the most dangerous lies men tell themselves
If you love a man who has been through divorce and cannot figure out why he keeps holding back, this conversation will show you exactly what he is carrying and what he actually needs from you.
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Ralph Brewer is the author of REBUILD, The Dead Bedroom Fix, and other bestselling books for men. After rebuilding his own life following divorce, he now helps hundreds of thousands of men through his books, podcast, and the Help For Men community.
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1 hr 7 min
July 03 Why 83% of Relationship Money Fights Are About Attachment | Rachel Cruze and Adam Lane Smith
Money is in the top three reasons for divorce in America. But most couples fighting about money are not actually fighting about money. They are fighting about safety, worth, and trust.
Adam Lane Smith sits down with Rachel Cruze, financial expert and bestselling author, to break down why money fights are almost never about money, what your attachment style is doing to your finances, and how to finally get on the same page with your partner before the fight becomes a crisis.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why avoidant people hoard money and anxious people overspend and why both come from the same wound
2- Why joint accounts get more hate on social media than any other financial advice and what that reaction actually reveals
3- Why the prenup conversation is not about divorce but about whether you are building a team
4- Why four generations of women were told men cannot be trusted and how that is running marriages today
5- Why money fights are marriage problems in disguise
6- Why the man who earns more and still feels worthless is an attachment problem not a financial one
7- Why working together to pay off debt improves marriages even when nobody taught a marriage class
8- What to do when one partner is a saver and one is a spender and neither can understand the other
9- Why 49 percent of Gen Z women say having children is no longer important and what is underneath that number
If money has been a source of fighting, hiding, or distance in your relationship, the problem probably started long before the bank account did.
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Rachel Cruze:
- Two-time #1 national bestselling author and financial expert.
- Host of The Rachel Cruze Show and co-host of Smart Money Happy Hour.
- Has served at Ramsey Solutions since 2010, teaching budgeting, debt-free living, and personal finance.
- Public speaker since age 15, speaking to audiences of up to 10,000 alongside her father, Dave Ramsey.
- Featured on major media outlets including Good Morning America, Today, CNN, Fox & Friends, and Live with Kelly and Ryan.
- Believes anyone can take control of their finances, avoid debt, and build a life they love.
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53 min
June 26 Why Gen Z Women Are Lonelier Than Ever (& How To Fix It) | Freya India
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Women today are not being liberated. They are being turned into commodities. Their insecurities are being weaponized, their dopamine systems are being hijacked, and the loudest voices telling them this is freedom are the ones profiting from their destruction.
Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with Freya India, author of Girls and one of the most important young voices writing about what is actually happening to women today, to break down exactly how modern culture is pulling women apart from themselves, from men, and from the possibility of real connection. This is not a culture war video. It is an attachment science and cultural psychology breakdown of why young women have never felt more anxious, more alone, or more convinced the problem is them.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why young women are not lonelier than ever but have so many simulations of connection they never get lonely enough to do something about it
2- Why social media did not create new insecurities in girls but amplified the existing ones at a scale no previous generation ever faced
3- Why one piece of pornography produces 21 times the dopamine of a real sexual experience and what that is doing to men and to the women who love them
4- Why most men have not had a hug since the age of ten and what that loneliness is producing in their relationships
5- Why avoidant attachment in women is rising and why it is almost always a defense mechanism not a personality
6- Why young women are having sex on the first date because they believe if they do not someone else will
7- Why women's moral instincts are being reframed as insecurity and what they lose when they stop trusting them
8- Why the therapy content telling women to have no emotions is describing the opposite of secure attachment
9- What it actually looks like to step off social media and see clearly for the first time
10- Why young women are not the problem and what actually is
If you have a daughter, a niece, a sister, or a young woman in your life who has convinced herself the problem is her, this conversation will give you language for what you have both been watching happen.
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Freya India is a contributing writer at The Free Press. She is also author of the new book, GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything.

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1 hr 14 min
June 18 Why Women Fear Men and How To Fix It | January Donovan and Adam Lane Smith
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Women have been given two options. Be silent and submissive or be independent and need nothing. Neither one produces a loving, safe, intimate family. Neither one is what most women actually want. And most women have never been shown a third way.
Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with January Donovan, founder of The Feminine Revival and one of the most important voices on authentic femininity today, to break down why women have lost the skills of womanhood, where that loss actually came from, and what reclaiming genuine feminine strength looks like without submission and without the boss babe mask.
This is not a culture war video. It is an honest conversation about what women actually want, why five generations of trauma have made it almost impossible to trust men enough to get it, and what changes when women finally stop performing and start building something real.
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What you will learn in this video:
1- Why fragile femininity and vicious feminism are both producing the same result and why neither is what women actually want
2- Why women today do not know how to be women and why that is not their fault
3- The generational wound that has been passed from great grandmother to grandmother to mother and how it is still running women's relationships today
4- Why the metric women are being measured by was built for men and what that has cost women at the deepest level
5- What feminine genius actually is and why the culture stripped it out of women without most of them noticing
6- Why spiritual motherhood is not about having biological children and who it is actually for
7- Why women fear wanting a man and what it actually takes to rewire that fear at the neurological level
8- Why men are not the ones who need to lead the cultural revival and what women have to do first
9- What it looks like when a woman steps fully into her feminine strength without losing herself
If you have felt torn between independence and connection, between strength and softness, this conversation will show you that the two were never meant to be at war.
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1 hr 10 min
June 12 The Resentment Epidemic Your Wife Will Never Tell You About | Dr. Morgan Cutlip and Adam Lane Smith
She is exhausted, overwhelmed, and carrying a running list in her head that never stops. And he has no idea it exists. Not because he does not care. Because nobody ever showed him what it actually is or what it is costing her.
Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with Dr. Morgan Cutlip, the world's leading expert on the mental load, to break down exactly what the mental load is, why most men completely miss it, and what it actually takes to fix it without destroying the marriage in the process. This is not a lecture about fairness. It is an attachment science and relationship psychology breakdown of why the invisible labor of home and family life is quietly building resentment in millions of marriages and what both partners can do about it right now.
What you will learn in this video:
1- What the mental load actually is and why most men only see one third of what their wife is actually carrying
2- The triple threat of physical mental and emotional labor and why one item on a to do list unpacks into something enormous
3- Why the mental load crowds out the mental real estate required for desire and what that means for your sex life
4- Why men change for pain and consequences not for love and what that means for this conversation
5- Why resentment builds silently for years before it explodes as divorce
6- The exact words a man can say to a wife who has felt dismissed for years that will not blow the whole thing up
7- Why the weekly check-in changes everything and what it actually looks like in practice
8- What women need to get clear on before they can ever communicate what they need
9- Why running your marriage like a business and treating your wife like talent you cannot afford to lose changes the dynamic overnight
If she is carrying everything and he does not know where to start, this conversation will show both of you exactly what to do next.
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1 hr 13 min
June 04 Why Men Stop Trying to Make You Happy | Alison Armstrong & Adam Lane Smith
Most women have been trying to understand men the same way they understand other women. And it has never worked. Not because men are broken, but because nobody ever showed her how they actually work.
Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with Alison Armstrong, one of the world's leading experts on understanding men and the author of The Queen's Code, for a conversation years in the making. Together they break down why men and women keep missing each other, what women get catastrophically wrong about men, and what changes everything when a woman finally learns to see a man for what he actually is.
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What you will learn in this video:
1- Why men are actually more naturally committal than women and what is getting in the way of that commitment
2- Why the testosterone soaked brain is built for focus and why interrupting that focus is not just annoying but genuinely disruptive to his peace
3- Why a man working 16 hour days and giving everything he has can still hear that he is not enough
4- Why men concealing things from their partners is not dishonesty and what it actually is
5- Why respect matters more to most men than love and why women resist saying it even when they feel it
6- Why a man cannot commit to something he believes he cannot win at and what that means for marriage
7- Why 95 percent of a woman's happiness depends on herself and not on him and why that is actually good news
8- Why men scan for complementary strengths in a partner and why women compete instead of complement
If you have ever felt misunderstood by the man in your life, or if you are a woman who cannot figure out why nothing you try is working, this conversation will show you exactly what has been missing.
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1 hr 11 min
May 21 How to Win at Marriage (The Way You Win at Work) | Patrick Lencioni
Your marriage is a team. Most people are running it like a dysfunctional one and have no idea why nothing is working.
Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and one of the world's leading experts on organizational health, to break down what makes teams fall apart, why the same dysfunctions destroying companies are destroying marriages, and what it actually takes to build real trust, real loyalty, and a relationship that functions like a winning team.
This is not a business conversation. It is an attachment science and leadership psychology breakdown of why the skills that build great organizations are the exact same ones that build great families.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why trust is the single greatest competitive advantage in business and in marriage and why most people never build it
2- Why vulnerability is not weakness and what it actually unlocks biochemically in the people around you
3- Why the five dysfunctions of a team show up identically in marriage and what to do about each one
4- What Working Genius is and why understanding yours and your partner's changes everything overnight
5- Why your partner may have been loving you in the way God made them and you completely missed it
6- Why couples date nights make disconnected marriages worse not better and what to fix first
7- Why the most bitterly resentful couples usually want the exact same thing and just never knew it
8- How to run a marriage like a business in a way that creates more joy not less
9- Why unhealed wounds always find their way back into the marriage no matter how hard you try to keep them out
10- What secure attachment and organizational health have in common and why both require the same foundation
If your marriage feels like a dysfunctional team, this conversation will show you exactly why and what to build instead.
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