Marriage as the Relationship, You Know?

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There's an element of novelty to a well, absolutely. It is your learning, your exploring. You're growing and and you're doing it together. There's also an element, where love is increasingly expected to sort of satisfy every aspect of our lives. And so this seems like maybe a good opportunity for us to kind of off load some of the stuff on to friendships,. Because those are helpful, and yet they're not really doing as much as they could be do.

Eric Barker is not a people person. “Getting me to write a relationship book,” he says, “is like asking Godzilla to improve the infrastructure in your city.” But he did it anyway. Guided by leading social psychologists, Eric went on a journey to understand what he was getting wrong about relationships — and what he could do to turn things around. The result is “Plays Well With Others,” a guide to friendship, intimacy, loneliness, and belonging that our curator Daniel Pink says will “revitalize your life.”

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Check out Eric’s blog, “Barking Up the Wrong Tree”

Try out Arthur Aron’s intimacy building questions

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