PragerU’s Dennis Prager argues marriage thrives on earned love—not unconditional affection—rooted in hygiene, respect, and mutual effort, warning against control or unrealistic demands like restricting a husband’s friendships. He frames male insatiability (sexual) and female needs (emotional intimacy) as biological truths, using Elizabeth Hurley’s affair to contrast male visual triggers with female emotional cravings, urging wives to understand rather than punish. Infidelity? Only divorce for serial betrayal; otherwise, forgiveness is part of love. Align actions to spouses’ priorities—daily calls for her, intimacy for him—and reject the myth that dependence weakens independence in a "heartless world," advocating raw honesty and male friendships to sustain bonds. [Automatically generated summary]
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Number seven, and this is the most controversial one that I think that I offer.
Don't take your spouse's love or even your spouse's fidelity for granted.
Let me tell you a little about my outlook on life on a subject that is very big in America, unconditional love.
I think unconditional love is for little children, period.
I don't think it's for adults.
I am not a fan of the concept, just like I'm not a fan of the concept of soulmate.
I think unconditional love is wildly exaggerated in its desirability and its good.
I don't expect unconditional love from my wife.
I would hope that she would have the self-respect, in fact, that if I truly treated her in cruel ways, that that love would ultimately diminish.
Of course.
I don't want to wake up every day and think, no matter how I act, she is just going to love me.
Or that she should feel that way.
No matter how I act, he will love me.
You didn't think that when you were dating.
Why should it be true when you're married?
You should never, ever, ever take your spouse for granted.
I see that.
I believe I see that with many couples who let themselves go, who don't try to be the best spouse, the most attractive, and by attractive, I mean it in the hundreds of ways that they could be for their spouse.
Well, why not?
I don't understand.
You showered.
I'm going to use an example that won't violate any, I suspect everybody showers regularly, that you're American after all.
But I mean, you know, you try to smell good and look good when you dated, when you dated, why don't you try to smell good and look good when you're married?
I don't understand.
Oh, I'm married and therefore, oh, I don't have to earn his love.
I don't have to earn her love.
I'm a believer in earning love.
I know this, this, that's why I say it's controversial.
The very term earning love does not sit well with a lot of my fellow Americans.
I don't know exactly why.
I think it's a very noble concept that I earn the love of somebody.
I have to earn my children's respect.
Now, they have to act respectful because I believe that children should act in a way that respects parents.
But I have to earn their respect.
I believe that.
We earn these things, and I believe that one should go through life earning every day again, re-earning the love and respect of one's spouse.
If you take the spouse's love for granted, well, how could you imagine that it's going to continue to work well?
It just, it boggles my mind.
And it holds true for everything.
Don't take any aspect of their love for granted.
Continually earn it as you felt you had to when you were dating.
Number eight, give each other freedom.
Now, for some people, that's easier than for others, but for everybody, it is necessary.
People who love you in freedom are much better than people who love you in being controlled.
First of all, at a given point, you can't control your spouse anyway.
So don't even try.
It's a beautiful thing to be able to say, okay, that's your way, you do it.
Okay, you need your time, or you need this, or you need that.
Marriage isn't a prison.
Marriage should, in fact, be liberating.
Think of it that way.
Think of it as liberating.
And then it can become liberating.
You don't own each other.
You are partners in making a beautifully better, more meaningful life together.
Freedom is the essence, I think, of a happier life.
Now, there are areas where, you know, at some point, obviously, you have to put your foot down if someone is abusing the freedom.
I mean, guys tell me they call up and they say, you know, my wife doesn't like the fact that I'm, you know, I go out with the guys three nights a week.
Well, I don't blame your wife for not liking that you go out with the guys three nights a week.
If you wanted to go out with the guys three nights a week, you should have stayed single.
Yes, so that's too much.
That's too much.
You owe things to your spouse, obviously.
However, you will interpret freedom is your business, but I'm telling you, I believe that it is a source of joy in a marriage to give each other as much freedom as possible.
Number nine.
Well, I guess it's not, that wasn't the only controversial.
Number nine and ten are related.
I wrote a book on happiness.
And when I lecture on happiness, as in my book, I state what I believe to be the single greatest obstacle to human happiness.
And that is human nature.
Our very human nature is the greatest obstacle to our being happy.
And the single greatest part of human nature that is an obstacle to happiness is we are insatiable.
Anything we want, we are never satisfied with the amount of it that we have.
Money, we want more.
If it's money that you want, some people are satisfied with the money they have.
If you want money, there is no income that you say, ah, I now have enough money, I am perfectly satisfied.
If you want attention, you will never have enough attention.
Look at Hollywood actors, they crave attention.
They never have enough.
That's why there were so many awards.
Is there any profession in the world that has an awards program every week?
Can you imagine if your profession had that?
Every week you get together to adulate members of your profession.
It's unbelievable.
They live for it.
They live to be applauded, adulated, photographed.
So there's never enough.
No one will say, oh, I now have enough.
I'm perfectly satisfied.
If you crave sex, there's no time where I have enough sex.
What man in the history of the world, especially men, okay?
And I'm going to get that out with the next numbers.
I have exactly the amount I want.
I seek no more.
At least under 90.
I can't speak.
Oh, by the way, I have a story to tell you about 90.
This will help you understand men because I'm going to talk about male-female differences in this arena of insatiability, where men and women have one major area of difference in insatiability.
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You know, I say, why exactly?
She said, you know, I want to tell you something.
You talk about how men look at women and so on, see us as sex objects.
I was with a 90-year-old patient who was dying.
And as he was dying, he was looking down my blouse.
Well, this is what I told her.
I said, Doctor, I envy that man.
That is my wish for when I die.
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The poor woman wanted me to be understanding of her plight, and instead I identified with the old geezer who was about to croak.
And it was a great moment where you realize how different men and women are.
So let me talk about insatiability.
When it comes to money, attention, and all this stuff, security, a whole host of things, men and women have equal insatiable drives.
But there is an area of insatiability in most men and an area of insatiability in most women, which is a cause for tremendous amount of marital friction.
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For men, it's in the sexual arena, and for women, it's in the intimacy arena, the emotional arena.
Very few men, as I said, say, oh, I am completely satisfied.
And the issue was not that their wife is not satisfying.
This, I have a talk which I do hope to write a book on male sexuality because I think men don't like to explain themselves to their wives because we don't look impressive.
Our sexual nature is much closer to that of an orangutan.
It is.
In fact, I'm sorry to say, and my wife is shaking her head as I speak, we are closer to roosters, which is really down the animal line, than we are to our wives.
I understand, I hate to say this because it's embarrassing, but it has to be said.
Somebody has to say this.
I understand when we keep chickens, and I understand when the rooster pops on top of all the hens.
I totally relate to the guy.
My kind of rooster.
My wife looks at the rooster and thinks he's an animal.
What the hell?
There's no foreplay.
They don't talk.
He doesn't care.
It could be this one that just bodies to him.
And I go, oh, how strange.
Now, let me tell you, this is an gentleman.
This is an unsolvable issue.
I just want you to know that.
And when you know that, you can start making peace with it.
Your desire for variety cannot ever be met unless you're Hugh Hefner, who has become an actual, almost a buffoon in his life.
By marriage, unfettered by limitations financially or socially.
He is not a pervert.
He's empty.
Yes, he's empty.
And if men follow their sexual nature, they end up empty.
That is true.
We can't.
And thank God for monogamy, it makes us much better.
But that doesn't mean that the rooster-type yearning ever dies.
It doesn't.
And wives, you have to know this about your husband.
He may not tell you this.
I'm telling you on his behalf.
Because you will think he's a pervert.
He's not a pervert.
He's a male.
He's not female.
Females can't think the way we do.
It's like asking me to think the way an orangutan does.
I can't.
I can't put my brain in that of an ape.
That's what it would entail for you, females, to put your brain in us.
The power of the visual to stimulate, to arouse, is not available in the female world.
It's not.
You are turned on by different things.
Your yearnings are different.
So this is an area where males have an insatiability that if the wife knows this, she can understand him better, not be angry.
He can't act it out.
Obviously, it's not a defense of acting it out.
It is a defense of understanding your man and trying to meet him in this arena.
You want proof of this?
There was a great, there are a million proofs, and I can't give that lecture now.
It's an hour-long lecture on its own.
But I'll give you the best one.
You remember the British actor, and I don't need to say his name because I don't, to me, it's gossip, even though you all know who I'm talking about, who was living with Elizabeth Hurley.
Now, Elizabeth Hurley was voted the most sexiest woman in the world on the internet.
Okay?
She's a beautiful woman.
Everybody knows that, right?
So, and this should come as some, this is a very important lesson.
Here he is living with the most gorgeous woman, theoretically, the most gorgeous woman, comes to LA and does what he does.
There are minors here, does what he does with a woman who, with all respect to her, is not beautiful.
You may recall the story.
Now, I remember people saying, this is unbelievable.
Guys with Elizabeth Turley, and look at what he does when he leaves the house.
Because it's variety.
It's not a comment on the beauty or the loveliness of your wife, of you, the woman, when he is looking.
It has nothing to do with you.
Nothing.
It has to do with him.
And he is that example of that actor is the perfect example.
This is not a defense of male infidelity.
It is an explanation to have some compassion, yes, compassion for this weight that your man carries.
Yes, here we go again.
All right.
Fine.
Now, and may it be weightier and weightier.
Now.
Now.
But women have an area of insatiability unrelated to that.
It is not, oh, man after, oh, I'm just aching for the every hunk I can find, I have to have.
Women don't think that way.
Women's insatiability is more complex and is in the emotional arena.
Whereas just as a man is not going to say, oh, I'm perfectly satisfied with the amount of da-da-da-da-da, you're not going to have a woman say, almost ever, I am perfectly satisfied with the level of intimacy that I have.
I want no more intimacy with my husband than I have now.
I want no more attention.
We spend the exact amount of time together that I would like.
It doesn't, no, I've never met a woman who said that.
Maybe there are.
I acknowledge that there could be.
These are generalizations.
She wants more time with you.
The common fee, just as I talked about the male burden, the female burden is that she wants more and more, more time, more attention, more love, more, and there's never a time where it's sufficient.
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And that is what you need to know as a female.
That while he can always improve, you will never be fully satisfied in that arena, most likely.
Some women may well be, but most likely not.
That's why women walk around and say he never listens.
By the way, let me tell you about that.
Your husband does listen.
You know, I've been very fair about both sexes.
So let me say on behalf of your husband, he does listen.
He doesn't remember.
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That's very important.
It's a very important distinction.
Five minutes later, he doesn't know what you said.
But while you spoke, he really was listening.
But you can't take it personally.
He doesn't remember what anybody says.
Men remember who died, batting averages, stock prices, and that sort of stuff.
In other words, macro stuff that they need to remember.
You know that.
He spoke to his brother on the phone, your husband, correct?
20 minutes he was on the phone with your brother, and his brother said, Hey, honey, what'd you talk about?
And what is his answer?
That's right.
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I don't have to tell you.
It's correct.
Nothing.
Now, the woman is now perplexed.
I heard him speaking for 20 minutes.
It is not possible that nothing was said.
I know something was said.
But for him, it was nothing because no one went bankrupt and no one died.
By the way, it's not funny.
I have forgotten people who died.
I forgot to tell my wife about that on phone calls.
So, I know she's shaking her head, poor thing.
I tell you, this is the way, by the way, there's a proof for this.
The University, I think it was of Wisconsin, did a survey.
They had male students alone.
A man student would sit in a room alone for a few hours.
And then they would ask him, What did you think about?
And they would ask the same thing with the female students, alone in a room a couple of hours.
What did you think about?
So, the men, what did they think about?
They thought about sex and sports.
What did the women think about?
This was what fascinated them.
The man thing bored me.
Of course, I was surprised about the sports.
And anyway, the women, this is what the women thought about.
They reviewed conversations they had had.
Now, I want you to know something.
There is not a man in this room who under torture could review a conversation he had.
What conversation?
So why do I tell you all this?
To understand how different the person is that you are married to.
She's not a witch.
He's not a jerk.
She's a female.
He's a male.
The better you know how different we are, the better we could love and respect each other.
Virtually done here.
Let's see.
Oh, yes, two more, and then I'm done.
So that means 11 and 12.
This is, oh, yes, another controversial one.
Do not automatically divorce if the other person has been unfaithful.
I strongly believe in that.
I believe that if you have a serial adulterer, you can't live with that person, obviously.
But I believe, and I have talked this over with so many callers over the years.
I'll never forget a woman.
I really got angry at her.
She said, I'm married, I don't remember the exact number of years, but it's something like this.
She's married 40 years, and she loves her husband.
And they've had a very fine marriage.
But she found out recently, she found out, I don't know, a year or two ago, that he had had an affair 15 years earlier, a brief affair, and now she wants to divorce him.
And I said, ma'am, listen, you called me, I didn't call you, so I feel free to say you're a fool.
And I told her, I think you are a fool.
That's a particular example of foolishness because of the time factor.
40 years that you've put together, it's only ego.
I'm so hurt that he did it that my pride cannot allow me to live with him.
It's pride.
It's ego.
It's not love and so on.
My God, that is it?
You have built a family together, a life together, and because of that, that's it.
Goodbye.
I don't buy that.
I don't buy that, by the way, in either direction.
If a woman does it, and if a woman does it, I particularly don't buy it, believe it or not, because with the woman, it probably means there's some really serious things happening.
Most women do not have affairs if things are going well at home.
Men do have if things are going well at home because they're roosters.
So that I understand.
But that, in particular, I know this is hard to do, but you have to ask, am I in any way a reason for what happened?
I know it's almost impossible because you're so angry and you're so hurt.
But if you want, that's the question you have to ask.
Do I want my marriage to succeed or do I want to get even?
Those are some of the questions one has to ask.
Of course, there are times when enough of this has to lead to divorce.
Of course, it's obvious.
Or especially if it's flaunted.
I mean, if a man would flaunt an affair or a woman and just publicly humiliate a spouse, then the issue isn't even an affair.
The issue is you're married to a cruel person.
And there, I do believe, one should check out.
And finally, do what is important for the other because you don't have the same beliefs or feelings about what is important.
What is important to her may not be important to you.
What's important to him may not be important to you.
Another dummy guy called me up once.
Dennis, I'm dating my girlfriend now, and we love each other and so on.
She insists that I give her a Valentine's card and gift.
And I say, Valentine's Day, that was invented by capitalists to make money selling cards and gifts on February 14th.
And I'm not going to give in to some capitalist ruse to make me spend my money.
And I said, you know, it's always good to hear from a dummy.
I always, I really do.
It really, it helps me because I never really know how dumb people can be until I get these calls.
I said, let me ask you a question.
He says, yeah?
Do you think your birthday is important?
Oh, birthdays are very important.
Well, what if your girlfriend thinks birthdays are not important and she does nothing for you on your birthday?
Then I'd be hurt.
Ah, aha.
So maybe what you should ask is not, is Valentine's Day important to me, Mr. Anti-capitalist?
What you ask is, is it important to her?
That's what matters, not is it important to you.
And likewise, she has to ask questions in marriage.
Is that important to him?
And that has the deepest ramifications in all of marital life.
Find out what's important to them.
Does your wife want to hear from you on a phone call each day?
Then make the phone call each day.
To most men, that is not an important phone call.
To most wives, it is an important phone call.
That's what matters.
And for him, it may be, once again, in the physical realm.
He wants to have relations and you're just loving and so on, but so what?
To him, it's important.
Whatever it might be.
I don't know what the him is or the her is in your case.
But the question, that almost guarantees a good marriage.
Just find out what's important to the other.
Because what's important to you is very different because you are a male and she is a female or you are a female and he is a male.
I don't do all these things perfectly by any means.
I said that earlier.
But I do know that if somebody tries these things, the chance of having a fulfilled and beautiful life with someone who isn't a soulmate, just another beautiful, flawed human who has made a life with you, are increased tremendously.
Thank you very, very much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you again.
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What is our timeframe here?
I think I went about five minutes over, or what is this?
We've got a little time for questions.
Good, we have some time.
Questions, comments, and brief alternate speeches.
Go right ahead.
There's always a hesitation before the first, then it gets a little floodlike.
So if anybody wants to begin.
Did you all hear her question?
That women will talk to women friends about their marriages, but guys won't talk to guy friends about it.
And because I said that couples should have couples to talk about their marriages, there's a lot of truth to what you say, and there's also a lot of danger.
Because what happens when a woman talks to a woman about their marriages, they just commiserate with how bad it is.
This is one area where maybe this is my feminine side, which is not the most developed of my sides, as my wife can tell you, but maybe it is.
This is one, and I'm happy for it.
I'm a happier man for it.
I have always, always, since high school, had male friends in my life that I talked about everything intimate with.
And it has been a salvation in my life to this day.
And so I, guys, it's a big mistake to just keep it to macro issues.
You have to find a guy that you can actually say, how's your marriage?
That is absolutely correct.
And it will help you because then you'll realize, again, the universality of certain problems.
But this is an area where men are, I don't know exactly why, because in this one area, I don't identify, I guess, with the bulk of males.
But to have a man in your life or men in your life that you can talk real to, my son is in college and he was just telling me, he said, you know, Dad, it's amazing.
I was just talking to a guy and he's so lonely.
He was a roommate who just left, actually left college.
He was so lonely.
And my son said to me, I had asked him, you know, you always mention all these friends you have.
And then the guy told my son, well, yeah, I have a lot of friends, but I don't talk anything personal to any of them.
I don't understand what a friend is if you can't talk personal.
What is a friend then?
One you play tennis with, you watch movies with, you talk sports to?
That's fun, but it's not meaningful.
People need this tremendously.
I'm very glad you raised that point.
Right, it's a very good question.
How can I live with someone?
He was surprised at my comment about don't automatically, and remember I used the word automatically, divorce after an affair.
Listen, part of loving, you're right, is trusting.
Part of loving is also forgiving.
And, you know, we have to forgive things that spouses do to us that are not just involved in infidelity.
Infidelity is one of a number of things that can hurt a spouse.
It's always, I'm always fascinated by how much weight we place on infidelity as if it's so much a grander attack on a marriage than some daily things that could happen.
I mean, what if you're just daily put down?
The person who puts you down, the man or the woman, has never been unfaithful.
They just put you down every day.
They just make you feel less worthy as a human.
To me, that's an infinitely worse sin than a one-time straying for either spouse.
So I know it's controversial given the way people think.
That's where forgiveness comes in.
Forgiveness is part of love too, not just trust.
And that is where I do believe you have to ask, why did you do it?
Not just you're a piece of garbage, but you're probably not a piece of garbage.
Most of you are not married to garbage.
Most of you are married to damn decent people.
And decent people sin.
That's what it's about.
Of course, the indecent sin, but I don't think you married the indecent.
And so there are many arenas where we have to ask, why did you do this?
What is going on here?
And the answers may bring you closer.
I know couples who've told me that they have worked these things out, and their marriage is far better afterwards.
Because finally, this forced them to talk about things that they coasted along not doing.
But obviously, as I said, if it's a serial act, then of course trust is shattered.
I couldn't agree more.
But trust could be shattered in a lot of ways just by coming home and being insulted.
Who knows?
Who knows?
The ways to shatter trust are infinite.
Yes, the differences between husband and wife, between father and mother's raising of children, is exactly why I am such a believer in the nuclear family.
Because my wife's contributions to the raising of our children are uniquely female and uniquely her.
Mine are uniquely me and uniquely male.
And you need both.
You need one to use generalized statements, because you mentioned safety or whatever it was of the children.
Mothers tend to allow fewer dangers to the child.
Most dads are not screaming, put on a jacket.
Okay?
In fact, I never met a father who said, put on a jacket in my life.
Okay?
Because none of us wore jackets when our mothers told us to wear jackets.
But, you know, but the mom thinks that, you know, even in LA, it's somewhat like the Arctic out there, and one must bundle appropriately.
You need one parent to love like that, and you need one parent to say, like my father, I mean, this was one of the great lines in my house.
My father would look at my mother and say, you know, you can't keep him in a china closet.
Which, by the way, is very funny.
For much of my childhood, I never understood the phrase because I thought it was a closet made in China.
I didn't realize what it meant.
I didn't know, what the hell is a China closet?
I understood what he meant, that you can't keep him locked up, but now he's not a delicate dish.
Let him do his thing.
And that's how dads feel, and they have to, you have to.
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That's why your child needs a mother and a father.
I cry for this aspect.
12 mothers can't do what one father can do.
Twelve fathers can't do what one mother can do.
It's just the way it is.
It's not anti-anybody to say that.
So, but here is the thing.
Women do have an instinct that they are infinitely more wise in the raising of children than we duds.
That's true.
That they do believe.
And that can be an issue.
So let me say, generally, I think the instinct of the mother is a good one.
But it isn't anywhere near infallible.
And in this manner, I think most women think they are, compared to their husbands, infallible.
We know better what's good for the kids.
That's not always true.
You need the input of your husband as a father, too.
Sometimes one is right, sometimes the other.
Look, let me just tell you, I don't think it's fully coincidental that smother is mother with an S. I'm, I, I can't, ooh, that goes over well all the time.
What's wrong with you people?
It is in smother, right?
Don't spother him.
Don't spother him.
Come on, folks.
Which parent is more likely to do that?
Now, no, serious, you'd need, that is why, listen, you need both.
I'll go further.
How much do I value the female role in raising children?
And I know there are a lot of tremendously successful and terrific women in business sitting right here right now, being here.
All things being equal, I think the ideal is to have a full-time mom for a child.
Okay?
The point is not to put guilt on any working mother.
It's ridiculous.
I have no desire to.
But that's how much I value mothers, that I think that they are truly incomparable.
But men have something to say about child rearing.
And if we worry less, it's good for you to know that.
We don't love our kid less than you do.
We just don't think that if he doesn't have a jacket on, he's going to get pneumonia.
We don't think that way.
He probably won't get pneumonia.
And so there are areas where we will let him be a little wilder.
Listen, here's an area where particularly I think men's instincts are right, Morai.
When your kid, how did our kid greet his friends at the door?
He jumped on them.
That's it.
That's how boys greet each other.
They jump on one another.
They tackle each other.
Now, your wife thinks that Al Capone is being raised in her house.
I can't believe this.
I'm raising a criminal.
And you're saying, no, boys like to jump on each other.
Now, you have to distinguish between mean and bullying jumping and just boy play.
Guys are good at that because that's what we do.
We boy play.
We jumped on each other as kids.
So here is where a man can help the woman.
And with daughters, there's a lot, obviously, that a woman can explain to the man that he may panic about.
We need each other.
That's the lesson of my talk.
We need each other tremendously.
I'll end with this.
We are building an America, because I tell you I speak to singles so often.
We are building an America, a generation, that believes that to depend on another human being is a compromise of one's greatness, of one's uniqueness.
A woman once called me, a single woman, and she said, Dennis, you keep pushing marriage, but I want to tell you something.
I am an independent woman, and I don't want to depend on anybody.
I said, I want to tell you something.
I am a very strong man, and I really do depend on my wife.
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And thank God I depend on my wife.
And it is no victory for you to go through life depending on no one.
That's the beauty of this.
Of course, we depend on each other.
It's a tough world out there.
And to have a haven in a heartless world is what a marriage can do.
Thanks again.
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