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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

399 - Love Won't Make You Happy with Carrie Jenkins

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Author and professor Carrie Jenkins joins us this week to discuss her newest book, Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning, and some of the principle themes in it. She goes into detail about questioning the relationship between happiness and love, eudaimonic love, "lovecrafting," and more.Carrie Jenkins is an author and philosophy professor who lives and works on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam First Nations. Carrie’s first novel, Victoria Sees It, was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House Canada, and shortlisted for the Frye Academy Award XIII and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her non-fiction books include What Love Is and What It Could Be (Basic Books, 2017) and Sad Love: Romance and the Search For Meaning (Polity, 2022).Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.com/join. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You can't literally buy love in the sense of walking into a store and being like,

0:07.6

yes, one love please. But if you're too bored to go out on dates and if you can't afford it's very stressful trying to keep a happy romantic

0:16.7

relationship together when you're under permanent financial stress. It's a lot harder than if you can afford to pay someone to take care of all dishes and kids.

0:25.7

So there's so many ways in which it's misleading to say that love and money have nothing

0:29.7

to do with each other.

0:30.7

They have a lot to do with each other. Welcome to the multi-ammery podcast. I'm Jace.

0:36.0

I'm Emily. And I'm Dedicher.

0:38.0

We believe in looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining the status quo of the past.

0:43.0

So whether you're monogamous,

0:45.0

polyamorous, swinging, casually dating,

0:48.0

or if you just do relationships differently,

0:50.0

we see you, and we're here for you. Fongs I know I did.

1:00.0

Force made up for myself to fix.

1:08.0

On this episode of the Multiamery Podcast,

1:10.0

we are back with author and philosophy professor Carrie Jenkins to discuss her new book

1:16.4

Sad Love, Romance, and the Search for Meaning. Now this was surprising to me to find out but it has been six years since

1:26.3

Carrie was on our show last. If you want to check out that episode it is

1:31.5

multi-emory episode 113 versus this one which is 399.

1:37.0

So just to show how long ago that was.

1:40.0

Carrie, you're here on the cusp of almost 400 episodes in six years, six years plus the 200 years that has been the pandemic.

1:47.6

So even longer...

1:48.6

That counts for at least 200 years.

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