{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Maxximus Show","title":"The Disconnect in Modern Dating (And How to Fix It) | The Maxximus Show Ep. 18","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2182,"description":"Something broke in the last twenty years. And nobody has been honest about what it was.\n\n91 percent of men and 91 percent of women both say dating has never been harder. Not men saying it about women. Not women saying it about men. Both sides. Same answer.\n\nThe U.S. fertility rate just hit 1.57 the lowest ever recorded in American history. Replacement level is 2.1. We haven't been there since 2007. 710,000 fewer births per year than our recent peak. And it is connected directly to what happened between men and women over the last two decades.\n\nHere is what actually happened.\n\nFor twenty years, society told men that their masculinity was the problem. Apologize for it. Suppress it. Soften it. Good men took that seriously. They pulled back. They stopped approaching. They stopped leading. And then women looked around wondering where the backbone went.\n\nAt the same time, society told women they don't need anyone. Conquer alone. Build alone. You are the prize. You don't need a man to complete you. And women believed it.  Built careers, built lives, built everything. And then looked around with nobody to share it with.\n\nBoth sides are lonely. Both sides are longing for the same thing. And both sides were pointed in opposite directions by the same culture.\n\nIn this week's Episode 18, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole breaks down exactly how this happened. What the apps did to both sides, what society did to men, what it did to women, why the fertility crisis is the consequence nobody is connecting to dating, and what the actual fix looks like. Not tactics. Not better apps. Something deeper.\n\nThis is the conversation almost nobody is having honestly.\n\nWomen aren't looking for a man who conquered the world. They're looking for a man who conquered himself.\nThat is where this starts.\n\n📖 Read the full journal entry:\n https://maxximus.ai/journal/disconnect-in-modern-dating\n\n💬 Talk to Maxximus — your AI Men's Mentor, Life and Dating Coach — FREE at:\n https://maxximus.ai\n\n🔔 Subscribe...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/38_oCYhGwvQxLj5SnaLzLM7u1xiBUQSdONhN1227Ses/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODgx/M2I1Y2I3YWJhODIy/Yjc3YmMzYWJiNDY1/ZTU0NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}