‘Modern Love’: Let Mel Robbins Share Her 5 Tips for a Healthy Relationship

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The best-selling author and motivational podcast host Mel Robbins is known for her blunt advice and viral wisdom, from The 5-Second Rule to countless proverbs on relationships, confidence and everyday stuck-ness. Her most recent book, “The Let Them Theory,” has given her readers a fresh perspective for navigating disappointment, rejection and uncertainty in life. On this week’s “Modern Love,” Robbins shares fives tips for letting go of control, and explains how these transformed her marriage and her relationship with her kids. She also reads a Modern Love essay, "You Have to Let Go to Move On,” about a woman who finally learns that real love doesn’t come from holding on tighter. For more Modern Love, search for the show wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday.

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0:00.0	Love now and...
0:04.0	Love was stronger than anything.
0:07.0	I feel of love.
0:08.0	And I love you more than anything.
0:11.0	Modern love!
0:12.0	There's to love.
0:13.0	Love.
0:14.0	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:19.0	This is Modern Love. Every week, we explore all the messiness
0:23.6	of trying to love, trust, and stay connected to other people. Our guest today thinks a big
0:29.0	part of staying connected is accepting what you can and can't control in a relationship. For example,
0:35.7	someone you're into doesn't text you back, let them. Let them not choose
0:40.2	you. Let them cancel last minute on your date. Let them forget to ask how you're doing. Let them
0:44.4	forget your birthday. Let them. I'm talking, of course, about Mel Robbins. She's a best-selling
0:51.0	author, speaker, and podcast host, and her latest book was an instant bestseller.
0:56.2	It's called The Let Them Theory.
0:59.1	It's not about giving up in relationships.
1:01.4	It's about letting people show you who they are, without chasing or fixing or trying to manage them.
1:07.9	Today on the show, Mel talks about how this idea has changed her own marriage
1:12.3	and her relationship with their kids, even just in the past year or so since she wrote the book.
1:17.6	She also reads a modern love essay about a woman who finally learns that real love doesn't
1:22.6	come from holding on tighter. It comes from letting go, even when you're hundreds of feet up in the air. Stay with us.
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