stacy morrison is the editor and chief and robi ludwig is a psychotherapist.> good morning. >> good to have you here. so, we all get pulled in different directions, we heard that woman say. is that the reason, stacy, why we're not making more of an effort to reach out to our friends? >> life gets in the way and it's easy to stay on your to-do list and that's what friends help you do, stay attached to that part of yourself that's just for you. >> why is it important, robi, to have a group of women that we can turn to? >> we find, first of all, that when women are connected, it stimulates the feel-good part of their brain. we need somebody that we can really share and be ourselves with, someone to share the highs, the lows. it's a wonderful way to connect to the community and to share information. and as women, we handle stress by being -- by tending to our children and depending on our friends. so, there are a whole host of reasons why it's just healthy for us. >> and having a spouse or a partner, you're not -- >> it's wonderful. >> --fully going to have the sa

stacy morrison the editor in chief of "redbook" magazine, jeff is a clinical psychologist. tty much wraps it all up in one big pile. money, too. >> they all relate to one of those issues. >> absolutely. >> men and women see these issues a lot differently. don't they? >> i think they do. i think women are a lot more relaxed because they know what it is that they need to do. they stay on-mission. many guys feel they're not getting the support of their wives. i think a particular example of that is when we look at this whole issue of communication. the biggee. stacy, you talk about the issue of having the heart-to-heart tas. guys hate that. maybe five, ten minutes, hit it and quit it. that's it. whereas women want to talk much, much more. >> keep going around and around. >> once we've agreed there was a problem, and we were wrong, but you keep going. >> the big thing is effective communication. instead of talking and talking again an again, which i agree women do like to do, it's to have a shared space where you say today we're going to talk about how we connect or we're going