i asked ben if he had heard any crazy engagement stories at the usale marriage lab, cause you figure tons of em. And he said, because of scientific confidentiality, he couldn't tell me. So i asked the nanett and found stories on line of folks who proposed these ways. There was a zero gravity proposal on a vomit comet plane - hopefully no onlookers were just can a barfed from the sentimentality of it. The worst proposals involved my god partners faking their own deaths and then having their beloved called to the scene of this fake motorcycle or pedestrian crash,. Then springing up alive with a ring on one knee. But that being said, do cry at every wedding?
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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