People who marry younger, as you can imagine, if you marry in your very early twenties, i was, i was a puppy. People who marry later are more stable. So the person that they meet at a later point is a their relatinips are less like to be buffeted by significant change. And now, what about the difference between getting married versus just long term partnership? What happens in the brain once there's a certificate in and pictures and a photo album and a registry? But what happens to people's relationships? Ok, so i think that there's a lot of continuity. I think that people can have intimacy that feels the same if we define it as, i'm
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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