Arthur C. Brooks

And that's a big problem.

Of course.

And especially if they're really, really out of here, like completely emotionally detached or God forbid being disloyal.

But if neither one of them wants that, then there's all kinds of protocols to feeling less lonely that have a lot to do, by the way, with touch and eye contact.

So that has the neurobiology that's behind that.

But actually doing things that are the most intimate things that you can do to fuse your right hemispheres together.

So for example, for couples that are religious, one of the things they probably never do is pray together.

Because that's like, that's really uncomfortable.

That's really, I know couples that are like super Catholic.

Esther and I are Catholic.

We know couples that have been together for, you know, 60 years and they've never prayed together.

Because it feels kind of weird.

Because you go by... And I bet your parents didn't pray together.

And so that's the most intimate thing that you can do.

And if you don't, you're not religious, meditate together.

Meditate together.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

That's this really, really intimate thing because you're having a right brain experience simultaneously.

That's why couples that are very religious, that actually engage in religious activity together, actually grow in religiosity together because what they're doing is they're fusing their brains.

The right hemisphere.