#278 Bad Marriage Advice Debunked: Communication, Conflict Repair, and Collaboration (with Monica Tanner)

This episode of #mensexpleasure features marriage, relationship, and intimacy coach Monica Tanner, who shares her background, including her parents’ divorce at 12, 23 years of marriage, and her work helping couples build connection and intimacy while aiming to reduce divorce. We discuss common marriage breakdown areas—communication, sex, money, and parenting—and how sex issues can feel larger when overall connection is weak, particularly for men who often experience closeness through physical intimacy.

Key points:

02:16 Why Marriages Fail

12:49 Debunking Marriage Cliches

18:16 Collaboration Over Compromise

24:13 Modern Gender Roles

29:19 Three Step Request Method

39:01 Repair Is One Way Street

45:16 Eight Sentence Repair Script