If you're not willing to invest time in those early stages to actually get a meaningful

relationship off the ground, then you're never going to have the bond necessary to carry you to the next stage.

Hey everyone, it's Matthew Hussey with the Love Life Podcast. Thank you so much for being here. I think

you're going to enjoy this clip. It's a classic from the archives. Check it out and don't forget if you

can leave us a review on iTunes. It would mean the world it helps us spread the word about this

podcast. All right, let's get into the episode. People were talking and had a lot of opinions on

whether you are more productive in a relationship or single. Now, that sounds like just one of those

things that's very debatable, right? There's obviously highly successful for whatever metric you

want to say. There's successful people who are married, there's successful people who are single.

So, you know, you can look at it either way. Of course, there are many people who said,

well, actually, I do get a lot more done when I'm single and that causes some conflict for me because

then I think, well, in a relationship, am I going to be able to achieve the things I want to achieve

or, you know, am I going to have to limit my goals? I think that is interesting. And, you know,

I don't know if you agree with me, but, you know, in some sense, that is a particular kind of person's

problem. But also, you know, if you're very driven and you're very like Taipei, it's, you know,

very like, oh, I'm driven to do things kind of issue. But also, there's so much there about

your choices. And I think the big one big takeaway I thought of is it's really important if you are

in that place where you want to build, build, build, you have to be really careful at how you give out

your energy even in short term relationships. This idea of whether you're more productive single

or in a relationship is missing a major caveat. There should be a third option. If you really want

to talk about whether what state is most productive, you have to compare being in a relationship,

with you have to, I think you might even need four, four categories. Right. Being single and not

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