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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Alain de Botton (Part 2) - How to Deal with Jealousy and Keep Your Partner Faithful

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of my interview with British-Swiss philosopher, Alain de Botton, we continue our conversation - which has since become one of my favorites - on all things love, extending into dating dynamics, dealing with jealousy, the confusing language of sex, and God's role in all this.Check out Part 1 here if you haven't already. It's essential listening if you want to understand what makes a quality relationship that results in more love and less loneliness. (While you're at it, listen to my c...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.0

Welcome to slow more.

0:27.0

This we are now. This will be part two of my conversation with one of the most requested guests I have been asked to have on the podcast, a world-renowned philosopher, an international best-selling author

0:46.6

and on the baton.

0:49.0

So the challenge I have is that if you look at that script of romanticism and how our 20th

0:57.1

century has evolved that script through movies and Hollywood and stories that are being told in a very specific way and novels that are always written around jealousy and adultery and betrayal and all of that because that's the drama moment that throws the audience in.

1:14.0

And then the current evolution of that script into modern world dating, modern world hookups,

1:22.1

modern world relationship definitions, which are actually quite interestingly

1:27.0

opposite almost to romanticism, but not in the direction of love.

1:31.0

Where do you think we're going with all of this?

1:33.9

Look, I think there are some attempts

1:37.2

to broaden the conversation around

1:41.6

what, let's say, a normal sexuality is.

1:45.0

I think in the United States,

1:47.0

polyamory in Malverny, I think it's still considered a sin

1:50.0

by 92% of the population.

1:52.0

So I think this is quite a long way to go. by 92% of the population.

1:52.5

So I think this is quite a long way to go.

1:55.3

But look, in some areas, there's an attempt,

1:58.7

you know, which really begins in the West

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