Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. This week's for the good of the order is about relationships and how to hold on to them and what kills them.

There's a guy called John Gottman who has done decades of in-depth

research about what makes relationships last and you'll hear that our next Tuesday episode of Kelly Corgan Wonders is with a

woman named Dr Helen Fisher who you may be familiar with she's quite a thing

she's done TED Talks and she's very active on social.

She's a sex and love researcher

and I really could not have enjoyed talking to her more.

I think this is like my perfect strike zone, which is a person who's deeply informed, who's committed to research and data, and who is just delightfully engaged in their subject matter.

So she reminds me of a Kate Bowler

or a Natalie Nixon from this past week,

or of course Lisa Feldman Barrett.

These are women who are deep in the work and are delivering so much value to the rest of us.

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