5507 The TRUTH About Long Distance Relationships!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux humorously dismantles the allure of long-distance relationships, highlighting their impracticality and inevitable failure. Through vivid imagery and witty anecdotes, they underscore the challenges of sustaining meaningful connections across continents. Emphasizing the importance of shared backgrounds and realistic expectations, Stef urges listeners to prioritize commitment and mutual understanding over romantic idealism. By painting a stark picture of the pitfalls awaiting those in long-distance relationships, he humorously conveys the necessity of a solid foundation and practical planning for lasting romantic partnerships.

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0:00.0	So got an email today from a call-in show. I don't think it's going to happen, but I did want to talk about the reasons why this can be a generic response.
0:10.9	So, long story short, guy was traveling in Italy. He think he's American. He met a nice Italian girl. They hung out together. They did all cool things. They went to dinner.
0:24.1	They went for walks. They had sex. They bonded. He returns to America. And then he's like,
0:31.3	But Steph, I love her. And we want to be together. And we spent two and a half weeks together and I want to bring
0:42.0	her to America but she's having trouble. Oh my God. Oh my God. Please stop banging each other like
0:52.8	pots and pans overseas and thinking that bond's
0:54.9	going to carry over into surmounting the vast cliffs and harrowing alleys and flaming-headed
1:05.4	monkey attacks of moving countries, all right?
1:09.6	Please, I'm begging you.
1:13.1	Stop meeting people in other countries
1:16.1	and asking me how to make it work.
1:19.1	Spoiler!
1:21.2	It doesn't work. It won't work.
1:23.8	It won't work.
1:24.7	Moving countries is insane. For a couple of week relationship. So you had your
1:33.0	bang fest in a foreign country with all of the cool unreality of traveling, right? Because there's
1:41.3	no reality in any of that. I mean, there's no reality in long-distance relationships as a whole.
1:45.8	It's just sex and yearning, conversation, and regret.
1:50.8	Even immortal human beings would consider long-distance relationships
1:56.9	a total freaking waste of time.
2:00.7	The universe itself being a total freaking waste of time.
2:02.4	The universe itself,
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