Why Nobody Feels Loved Anymore - Sonja Lyubomirsky - #1115

“It's a sexy definition, but if it's inaccurate, then we need a new one. I believe that the evidence is not really holding up. And actually, Nick Epley, who wrote a book called A Little More Social, great book, talks about this. I think that the evidence is not quite there. So I don't maybe again, absence of evidence is an evidence of absence.”

“And yeah, so really maintain those friendships. Did you read Friends by Robin Dunbar? No, but I know about it. Yeah, yeah. Interesting idea. He talks about the concentric circles of friendship. And I think he talks about you have room in your life-ish for about five very close friends, but that a partner takes up two of those slots.”

“Not on a podcast, I certainly have beautiful letters from my students. I love it. Consider me a student. Thank you. Sonja Lyubomirsky, ladies and gentlemen, where should people go to check out everything that's going on? Howtofeelloved.com just the title of my book, howtofeelloved.com. And we also, by the way, we have a quiz where you can take and it shows, it will tell you just five minutes.”

“Susan Cain wrote this great book, right, called Quiet. Love the book. And I'm a big fan of introversion.”

“So like Eli Finkel's book, The All or Nothing Marriage, right? And so we know this to be true, and yet we still think that, right? Yeah, so one person needs to fulfill. Sexual, spiritual, emotional, intellectual needs, and that almost never happens.”

“I have a book about this called the myths of happiness.”