Arthur C. Brooks

There have been times when I've felt lonely.

You know, when my kids were first born.

And, you know, she's all about the kids.

And I'm like the fourth child.

And the unloved fourth child.

Yeah.

And those are normal periods of loneliness.

And those are normal dynamics in a relationship.

The problem is when there's no specific reason for it and it goes on and on and on.

And this has to do with when women feel like there's not a deep human connection with the one person with whom they're supposed to be fused.

So they talk about one flesh.

And it's often like that's taken as some sexual connotations.

That's actually not.

That's the fusion of the two right hemispheres of the brain together.

That's the cosmic connection.

Remember, the right hemisphere of the brain is the meaning part of the brain.

And when your right hemispheres are communicating, that's one flesh.

That's this like antenna to the divine.

Okay.

And so one of the things that I recommend when couples, there is loneliness in a couple, sometimes you can't fix it because one partner's like, yeah, because I'm kind of out of here.