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399 - Love Won't Make You Happy with Carrie Jenkins

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

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The Happiness Paradox and the Romantic Paradox

There's a lot that goes on under the ages of positive psychology that looks at what does in fact lead to and the kind of things I would call you demonic. The happiness paradox is just that bad idea that chasing your own happiness or your own pleasure tends not to make you happy in the long run or even at all. It can have the opposite kinds of results which is part of part of my critique of romantic love  in the course of the book.

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