A lot of people find that their marital discord is financially based, or at least that's what i hear from people. Whatever you disagre about is going to be what you disagree about. I would say that the con ext of having or not having adequate resources in your life is fundamental. It changes the kind of time you have together. And it changes the sort of personal resources you have to do the work of empathy and the work of standing and compromise.
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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