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Meet Harvard's Professor Of "Happiness" | Dr. Robert Waldinger

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Importance of Emotional Connection in Relationships

When we say polyamory, we mean a relationship between multiple people. But I think what we're seeing now is more so the lack of connections being formed. So it's not even polyamorous. It's just kind of open and flexible. And without a foundation of who's your person, like I heard you speak on another podcast where you said, who can you call in the middle of the night? You might have a lot of dates to go on and having a lot of sexual experiences, but maybe you don't have the person to call anymore because there's so many of those superficial level relationships. Right. We haven't seen it.

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