You know that feeling. You're looking at him and you have absolutely no idea what's going on in there.

In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with her husband Morgan to unpack some of the most common toxic patterns men bring into relationships without realising it. Drawing from their own marriage, including the breakdown and the reset, Lauren and Morgan explore what's really underneath behaviours like contempt disguised as humour, stonewalling, emotional outsourcing, and doing the bare minimum while waiting for a parade.

This is a conversation for both the woman trying to make sense of what's happening, and the man who genuinely loves his partner but keeps landing wrong. Because awareness is where change begins, and getting curious is a lot easier when it doesn't feel like blame.

You'll hear about

• Why contempt shows up as sarcasm and eye rolls long before it looks like anger
• The real reason men stonewall and why it's not the same as needing space
• What emotional outsourcing actually costs both people in a relationship
• How doing more around the house can backfire and breed resentment
• What it looks like when a man starts taking ownership of his own emotional world

When we stop asking who's the problem and start getting curious about the patterns, something shifts. That's been true for them, and it can be true for you too. Awareness isn't the end of the road. It's the beginning of something better.

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Big love,

Lauren x