In some countries, it's still legal and acceptable for a husband to use violence to discipline his partner. A unisef study showed that large percentages of women in afghanistan and jordan have been socialized to agree that a husband is justified in beating his wife if she argues or goes out without asking him. There are practices like child marriages and other brutalities. Women and girls forced to marry their sexual abusers to save their reputations. People really care about marriage. Everyone knows that relationships matter. They're surrounded by them. And i con do that for a living. That's only good.
Love! Romance! Intimate relationships! Marriage! Divorce! Remarriage! Clowns! This episode has it all. The wonderfully warm Dr. Benjamin Karney of the UCLA Marriage lab has been studying romance and intimate relationships for 20 years and sits down to chat about being single and the mechanisms behind finding a partner, what behaviors foster intimacy, why some couples stay together vs. splitting up, some bananas proposals, wedding budgets, how parenting affects marriage, historical problems with matrimony and his own experiences with marriage and divorce. These behaviors are also so applicable to friendships, work partnerships and as it turns out...professional clowns.
Dr. Ben Karney at the UCLA Marriage Lab
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