#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 231 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(09:01) - Why marriages fail
(30:32) - Sex and fetishes
(39:49) - Breakups
(1:05:35) - Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
(1:25:36) - Complicated divorce cases
(1:32:22) - Cheating with the nanny
(1:34:39) - Relationship advice
(1:43:20) - Cost of divorce
(2:05:11) - Prenups
(2:19:33) - Cheating
(2:27:17) - Open marriages and threesomes
(2:40:05) - Sex and fighting
(3:05:00) - Kevin Costner's divorce
(3:14:44) - Lying
(3:22:12) - Productivity
(3:30:06) - Jiu Jitsu
(3:38:38) - Sex, love, and marriage
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with James Sexton, divorce attorney and author of How to Stay in Love, |
| 0:05.4 | a divorce lawyer's guide to staying together. |
| 0:08.2 | As a trial lawyer, James, for over two decades, has negotiated and litigated a huge number of |
| 0:14.4 | high-conflict divorces. This has given him a deep understanding of how relationships fail |
| 0:20.4 | and how they can succeed. And bigger than that, the role of love and pain in this whole messy |
| 0:27.3 | rollercoaster ride will call life. |
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| 1:02.1 | onto the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting. |
| 1:06.4 | I really do try, but if you must skip them, I will forgive you. But please still check out the |
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