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Today's story is called Dear Single Person: You're Doing Nothing Wrong.
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Today’s episode is about finding perfection in the good enough.
We all know that nobody is perfect, and we all know that our partners can't possibly live up to our internal expectations. Yet we're always hunting for the perfect partner even though we know that hunt is a dead-end; it leads not to satisfaction, but to more searching in a never-ending cycle.
Today's guests – Tejal and Chirag – have put that cycle to rest. Our episode today is about how they did that
Tejal is founder of online training program, The Mindful Mama Experience, and contributing author to Amazon best-selling book, 20 Beautiful Women. She teaches mindfulness and Kundalini meditation to mamas and kids ages 3-9. If you’d like to learn more about Tejal or one of her mindfulness challenges, you can find her website at: http://tejalvpatel.com/.
In other news, we’re taking a short break from producing new interviews. In the meantime, we’ll be posting spoken-essays and short audio clips, so you can continue to tune in. We’ll be back in a couple of months with a new improved format. If you have any suggestions or ideas for our new format, don’t hesitate to let us know.
Today’s episode is about finally finding the right partner after divorce. My own experience as a divorce lawyer was that my clients who worked through the emotional issues always had very happy second marriages. That contradicts the data on second marriages, but I saw it occurring over and over.
I believe I’ve found yet another example in our guests today. Carolyn and Christof have a fun and romantic story in which they gamely face the challenges that are inevitable in every relationship, as you’ll hear. And they met just as Christof had gotten over a very challenging divorce.
These two are both well regarded journalists living in NY. Carolyn is a senior writer at Huffington Post, who also published a book last year. You can learn more about her here: http://carolyngregoire.com/. Christof was an on-camera journalist at Al Jazeera America, and is now freelance.
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Today’s episode is about the super bowl!
Well, it’s about a lot more than that, but a good chunk of the story revolves around what happened at the Super Bowl this year. With that as the backdrop, we get to explore questions of parenting, sex, shared responsibility, and of course my favorite topic of all: conflict.
Now this was one of our longer interviews, so I’ve cut the second half out for a Patreon bonus episode. If you’d like to hear that, you can find it at: you can find that at patreon.com/together.
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Today's episode is the second of two bonus episodes made possible by Match. I had always wanted to interview Dr. Helen Fisher; she’s a biological anthropologist, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the science of love. She is also Match’s Chief Scientific Advisor, and so they made the introduction for me.
In the first segment which we released last week, we learned a little about Dr. Fisher personally, and we spoke more broadly about the biological reasons for love. In this episode, we focus on Dr. Fisher's advice to singles looking to meet the right person, and to couples who want to stay in love for the long term.
You might want to check out Dr. Fisher’s book that she mentions in the interview: Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (Completely Revised and Updated with a New Introduction).
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