FULL EPISODE: Patience Really is a Virtue - February 27, 2026
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How do on-again, off-again relationships affect mental health?
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Welcome in, pull up a bar stool to the dive bar that is the last show. But it's not the last last show. It's just one night of the last show, which is this show.
What is the role of technology in modern therapy?
Anyway, we got a great lineup tonight. I'm excited about it. You will learn a lot of things on the program. Here are some of them. I'm sure you've heard talk of AI going high tech, chatbots that act as therapists. And to be honest, it all kind of sounds grim, at least to me. But what if technology can actually make things better in therapy? And what if they're smart, compassionate people working on just those problems? Well, there are. What are they doing?
Why is patience considered a transformative skill?
We'll discuss that in 10 minutes time. Then after that. Patience is a virtue. What does that mean? Well, impatience can wreck your relationships, ruin your goals, and even clog your arteries. Halfway through the hour, we'll unpack the science on how patience isn't passive. It's a skill you can learn, and it can change your entire life. Okay, that is just a small slice of the show tonight. There will be more. We'll cover more.
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You will learn more, but for now, let's dive in.
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On again, off again, romantic relationships. They're dramatic. They're exciting. But do they take a toll on your mental health? Well, a new study shows that all that breaking up and making up may cause you a lot of stress.
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And that stress can even show up in your body. I am here with someone who has worked on that research. She is a communication studies professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her name is Renee Daly. Renee, thanks for coming on to the show.
Thanks for your interest in this research.
So on again, off again relationships. Are we talking about romantic drama or are we talking about something that kind of functions more like a chronic stress condition?
Well, there can be drama, definitely. But we characterize these as kind of a chronic stressor in the study that we were looking at.
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Now, they get a lot of good press for being exciting. People talk about what it's like to break up and get back together. They're explosive. There's lots of emotion. They kind of get told as like romantic tales in common media portrayals. Is that how they end up functioning when you actually look at them?
We do find pretty much consistently across the research that they have lower relational quality and perhaps more volatile dynamics. So if you look at satisfaction, they have less satisfaction. They have more uncertainty about the relationship. They have more conflict and they have more aggression.
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So their fluctuations are probably a lot more extreme than perhaps what we would consider a traditional relationship.
Now, how often do they actually happen? I have been in one. What number or what percentage of adults are actually in a cyclical relationship like this?
At any current time, if you ask people, does your current relationship have this on-again, off-again history, about 20 to 25% will say yes. If you ask about past relationships, a little bit more, maybe a third will say that they've had this cycling history to their relationship. But we found across lots of different samples that maybe up to two-thirds of us have experienced at least one of these relationships in our relational history.
So they are extremely common. Now you mentioned the phrase chronic stressor. What makes this kind of relationship a chronic stressor? Is it the instability? Is it the potential conflict? Is it the emotional difficulties that occur within them?
Yeah, it's probably all of the above. I think we call it a chronic stressor because of the problematic interaction patterns that they have and they do report more relational stress. So we feel like it's kind of just a constant chronic stressor for them throughout their relational trajectory.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:03
2
How do on-again, off-again relationships affect mental health?
0:03–0:33
3
What is the role of technology in modern therapy?
0:33–0:58
4
Why is patience considered a transformative skill?
0:58–1:23
5
How can Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs help with alcohol use disorder?
1:23–1:51
6
How has Survivor changed the landscape of reality TV?
1:51–2:22
7
What does recent research say about reading and loneliness in older adults?
2:22–2:52
8
How do narcissistic traits influence perceptions of flirting in academia?
2:52–1:20:07
Speakers
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