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Helen Fisher

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39 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

Yeah, he dumped me when I was 70.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

Yeah, he dumped me when I was 70.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

Yeah, he dumped me when I was 70.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

Nobody gets out of love alive. Nobody. We all know that, but we go on.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

Nobody gets out of love alive. Nobody. We all know that, but we go on.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

Nobody gets out of love alive. Nobody. We all know that, but we go on.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

I have been extremely lucky during most of my life. I've lived with men long-term, two men long-term, one for 15 years, another for 18 years. Oddly enough, I've studied marriage for 50 years, but I wasn't interested in marrying. I finally met the man of my dreams. I was just nuts about him. He's a very well-known journalist, and he had interviewed me for years, and I really liked him.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

I have been extremely lucky during most of my life. I've lived with men long-term, two men long-term, one for 15 years, another for 18 years. Oddly enough, I've studied marriage for 50 years, but I wasn't interested in marrying. I finally met the man of my dreams. I was just nuts about him. He's a very well-known journalist, and he had interviewed me for years, and I really liked him.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

I have been extremely lucky during most of my life. I've lived with men long-term, two men long-term, one for 15 years, another for 18 years. Oddly enough, I've studied marriage for 50 years, but I wasn't interested in marrying. I finally met the man of my dreams. I was just nuts about him. He's a very well-known journalist, and he had interviewed me for years, and I really liked him.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And we went... We went out for about six months, and then he dumped me. Yeah, he dumped me when I was 70. I was never angry at him. The reason I wasn't angry at him is he was a single father going through a horrible divorce. He just came to me one day, and he said, Helen, I just can't take on anymore. I remember he did it in Grand Central Station, and I was standing there, and I said, okay.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And we went... We went out for about six months, and then he dumped me. Yeah, he dumped me when I was 70. I was never angry at him. The reason I wasn't angry at him is he was a single father going through a horrible divorce. He just came to me one day, and he said, Helen, I just can't take on anymore. I remember he did it in Grand Central Station, and I was standing there, and I said, okay.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And we went... We went out for about six months, and then he dumped me. Yeah, he dumped me when I was 70. I was never angry at him. The reason I wasn't angry at him is he was a single father going through a horrible divorce. He just came to me one day, and he said, Helen, I just can't take on anymore. I remember he did it in Grand Central Station, and I was standing there, and I said, okay.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And I remember I walked home, and I just sat at the edge of my bed for six weeks playing music to kill yourself by. and crying. I mean, what else do you do? And, you know, overloading my friends with my sorrow and all that, which, by the way, after a while isn't a good idea. You're just raising the ghost. But anyway, what I did, though, is I never contacted him.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And I remember I walked home, and I just sat at the edge of my bed for six weeks playing music to kill yourself by. and crying. I mean, what else do you do? And, you know, overloading my friends with my sorrow and all that, which, by the way, after a while isn't a good idea. You're just raising the ghost. But anyway, what I did, though, is I never contacted him.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And I remember I walked home, and I just sat at the edge of my bed for six weeks playing music to kill yourself by. and crying. I mean, what else do you do? And, you know, overloading my friends with my sorrow and all that, which, by the way, after a while isn't a good idea. You're just raising the ghost. But anyway, what I did, though, is I never contacted him.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

I never wrote him at Christmas to wish him well. I never contacted him again. I think it allowed him to realize that he was a free agent, that he could start this relationship and explore where it was going to go without having a tightrope around his neck. So he wrote to me a letter and said to me that he thought he'd made a terrible mistake. And we fell in love.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

I never wrote him at Christmas to wish him well. I never contacted him again. I think it allowed him to realize that he was a free agent, that he could start this relationship and explore where it was going to go without having a tightrope around his neck. So he wrote to me a letter and said to me that he thought he'd made a terrible mistake. And we fell in love.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

I never wrote him at Christmas to wish him well. I never contacted him again. I think it allowed him to realize that he was a free agent, that he could start this relationship and explore where it was going to go without having a tightrope around his neck. So he wrote to me a letter and said to me that he thought he'd made a terrible mistake. And we fell in love.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And I got married to him at age 75. When he asked me to marry him, I said, I'll marry you, but I'm not moving in. Because I have a little nice apartment in New York. He's got a beautiful apartment in the Bronx. But I mean, I'm there five nights a week. The other nights I like to go to the theater with my girlfriends, etc.

Freakonomics Radio
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

And I got married to him at age 75. When he asked me to marry him, I said, I'll marry you, but I'm not moving in. Because I have a little nice apartment in New York. He's got a beautiful apartment in the Bronx. But I mean, I'm there five nights a week. The other nights I like to go to the theater with my girlfriends, etc.

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