The best dating advice nowadays, based on research, is don't worry about people's profiles. You'rl find somebody that you think is cute enough, and go and interact with him as soon as possible. People naturally value iti romantic chemistry through how an interaction makes them feel. We don't choose partners the way we choose furniture. It has to be an interaction, a give and take. And that's actually where romantic chemistry emerges from.
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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