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157 – Navigating Intimate Relationships (with Yael Schonbrun)

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Do I Do Arranged Marriages or Love Marriages?

I think there is this this global expectation that our relation like if you marry the right person it's supposed to feel natural and you're not supposed to have to work too hard at it. I was actually just reading a book that referenced this primary study which I heard about before and I need to go check it out but it was something they were comparing couples that were arranged marriages versus couples that were love marriages. Over time arranged marriages started out with lower relationship satisfaction and grow in their satisfaction over time whereas love marriages start high and deteriorate. We should be having those kinds of conflicts so we can teach our kids through those conflicts how to disagree and see eye to eye because they don't

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