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Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Quickie: Why romance is dead

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Anna and Polly celebrate the power of platonic love. Inspired by two women who chose to live as PLP’s (Platonic Life Partners) over settling down with a romantic partner, there’s a question for Team Dirty Mother Pukka: should we just move in with our best mate and be done with it?

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Uh... Global Player Original Podcast Welcome to this Dirty Motherpucker Quicky.

0:58.2

This is your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna Whitehouse and my best, Mayor Polly, Hazerwood in the house. Yes I am. Hello.

1:06.8

There she is. Sorry. It gets worse and worse. So today, going to be talking about the platonic versus romantic relationship. Now, this has come off the back of Polly and I becoming

1:13.9

incredibly good friends. So Dr. Anna Mackin, author of Why We Love, the new science behind our

1:20.1

closest relationships, she says this, we have an absurd fixation on the primacy of romantic love.

1:28.0

This is a result of our culture and media,

1:30.6

but all you need in life is love,

1:32.6

and that can come from any source, romantic or not.

1:36.4

We need to rethink what love is

1:37.9

and have a greater understanding of the spectrum of human love.

1:41.4

We need to broaden our ideas about what constitutes a family

1:44.3

and let go of the nuclear obsession.

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