Sonja Lyubomirsky

That love isn't being felt.

I think it happens a lot.

You know, Harry Reese, my co-author, and I did a survey where we asked people, are there relationships in your life that you sometimes don't feel as loved as you would like to be, you know, or as frequently as you'd like to be?

And something I think like 70% said that, yes, there's at least one relationship in which I don't feel as loved as I want to be.

I actually think that number is an understatement.

You know, I actually think it's a lot higher than that.

But 70% is a lot, you know, and so maybe it's your colleague, it's your romantic partner, your

mom, your child, you know, your friend.

I think it's very common.

Absolutely.

And there's sort of this lack of feeling, you can also call it a lack of feeling of belonging, which I think is very much related to feeling love.

Loneliness is very much related.

You can argue that being lonely really is basically not feeling loved by your community friends.

Some people argue this is an epidemic.

But this really raises an important point, which is that most people, when they think of love, they think of romantic love or passionate love.

They think of love between romantic partners.

But there's love in the workplace.

And by the way,

I think the word love is not used often enough at work.

I think we should bring it back to the workplace.