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Podcast: Sexvangelicals
Episode: S3E05: Partnership Building: How Rigid Gender Norms Negatively Impacts Appreciation
Description: We are continuing our series on Partnership building by comparing the messaging from a classic relationship book in Evangelical/Mormon/Pentecostal (EMPish) circles, Love and Respect, by Emerson Eggerichs, alongside the work of couples researchers John and Julie Gottman, and their principle of nurturing fondness and admiration. As we talked about last week, practicing this principle can be challenging when you've grown up learning that admiration and fondness exist along problematic gendered norms of the Love and Respect model. Julia explains, "Admiration roughly translates to respect, which women show through deference to male authority and...