Summary of this Episode
Welcome to Season 3 of the Generous Marriage Podcast.
In this season we continue to interview different teachers, therapists, coaches and authors we meet, and bring you practical wisdom you can use to create a more generous marriage for you and your partner.
Our guest on this episode is Jed Diamond, an elder in the men evolution movement. He is the founder of MenAlive, a health program that helps men live long and well. Jed has been a licensed psychotherapist for about 40 years. Since its inception, he has been on the Board of Advisors of the Men’s Health Network. His passion in life is to suupport men, and the women who love them, in eliminating the stresses that undermine their health and wreck relationships.
Here are the highlights on this new episode:
It all started in 1969 when Jed had his first childAccording to Jed, his work life is a fulfillment of a promise he made to his sonJed didn’t have good relationships in the early part of his lifeEventually went to therapy himself and learned the cornerstone of relationships on his partJed’s been with his current wife for 40 years nowJed is also part of a men’s group that’s been meeting for 40 years now(!)One of the Rules for Good Men is being in a men’s group which is a group of healthy men in healthy relationshipsOne of his goals is to help men and their families to be able to do the healing from growing up in a dysfunctional familyIf we’re not aware, we fall in love to the projected image of what we hope that person would be and not with the person for who she isHis wife was the one who challenged him to write the book 12 Rules for Good MenNumber one rule is to be comfortable with our malenessMen’s group is a way to discover yourself on a deeper levelSecond rule is breaking out of a man box – the way we are raised as men and the beliefs that we grew up withWorrier vs Warrior = Woman vs ManJed and his wife remarried after 15 years to renew their vows, by then they were two different people as they already changed to be the better version of themselvesStay tuned for more information about the Generous Marriage Academy coming up soon!!
Bonus: 12 Rules for Good Men
Jed Diamond generously shared with us this fun infographic about the 12 Rules for Good Men.
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