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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Are we making ourselves unhappy by setting unrealistic expectations for our relationships? Matchmaker Paul C Brunson thinks we might just be.
In this chat, Fearne and Paul explore attachment theory, communication styles, and the idea that instead of looking for ‘the one’ we should prioritise doing more of the things that light us up. Plus, Paul explains why the biggest rule of dating is to find the person you want to break the rules with...
Paul’s book, Find Love, is published by Happy Place Books on February 1st.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that helps us love |
0:06.1 | ourselves and each other more deeply. Today I'm chatting to Paul Bronson. |
0:11.2 | And what I say is that instead of focusing on let me go out and try to find the one, |
0:16.6 | find your social capital. Do more of the things that turn your lights on. Do more of the things that make you go to sleep with a smile on your face and wake up with a |
0:27.4 | smile on your face and when you do that when your light is on I guarantee |
0:31.6 | you everything else in life becomes better you know and that's |
0:35.2 | that's ultimately the best strategy that we could use in life. |
0:40.0 | Paul is a relationship expert entrepreneur and TV host best known here in the UK for |
0:45.8 | Celebrity Dating and Married at First Sight. |
0:49.4 | He's the head of Global Research Insights at Dating App Tinder and has been named the world's most influential |
0:56.4 | matchmaker by the Matchmaking Institute. |
1:00.0 | And he's just written an absolutely gorgeous book that I'm incredibly excited to say is being |
1:06.4 | published by Happy Place Books. |
1:09.2 | It's called Find Love and it's got everything in there red flags green flags dating apps attachment |
1:16.2 | styles compromising basically everything that can make finding love |
1:20.8 | feel like an absolute minefield and And this all applies whether you're single |
1:25.2 | or in a relationship by the way. I've been married for nine years but I learned so much from this |
1:30.9 | chat with Paul. Oh and by the way some behind the scenes |
1:34.0 | Intel so producer and Nushka always reminds us not to touch the table if |
1:39.2 | possible because then you can hear it in your headphones and it's really annoying. |
1:43.4 | Paul, the lovely man that he is, was really doing his best to follow the rules. |
1:49.3 | Everything comes at a price, but not everything can be paid for. |
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