Debbie Millman
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2 Apr
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It was a multimedia show featuring research and interviews with neuroscientists, couples counselors, psychologists, and a year's worth of interview footage of real couples.
What motivated that?
Do you have an answer to the question of how to stay in love?
Well, relationships, intimate relationships were always my Achilles heel, likely because I didn't come out until I was 50 and prior to that had always been in heterosexual relationships.
So, yeah, that was a problem.
I think you'll love this answer more than anybody I think that I know.
I think the secret of our staying in love is having fallen in love through laughter.
Roxanne finds me funny.
Like, I always tell my students, if you laugh at my jokes, I will give you a better grade.
But she genuinely finds me funny.
And I'd always had, as I was sort of aging and getting older and thinking about relationships, like what would be the number one thing that I would want in a relationship?
And it was that my partner would find me amusing.
And Roxanne finds me amusing.
She really does.
We laugh all the time.
And even when things are hard, even when the world is falling apart, we still find something to cackle over.
And that is, I think, what fuels our love.
Yeah, I thought you might.
Yeah, I also think that when you fight, if you can develop a little bit of scar tissue, that sort of helps the foundation feel more secure.
that it's really not about them it's like you're cranky and hungry like go sleep oh i never thought about that that way that's brilliant that's brilliant chris i have so many other things i want to talk about i want to talk to you about your book but before that i can't not talk to you about your podcast in 2021 a year after how to stay in love you began to host the original ted podcast how to be a better human how did that opportunity came to come to be
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