The most important thing you need to know about your partner is how you and your partner interact together. The fundamental part where intimacy is tested is indifference. So how does your partner manage difference with you? And how do you feel in those moments? That's the most important thingYou can know. But here's why i think we should do this and why i'm dying to do it. I want to do it so bad.
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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