S6E7: These Rules Are Meant for Breakin'

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Meredith sits down with two smart people who have spent a lot of time studying relationships – how we make them, what we look for in other people, and the “rules” that color these big decisions. Lamont White is a dating coach and matchmaker. Angela Bahns is a social psychologist whose work raises an important question: Is it actually true that opposites attract? Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:01.8	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, which
0:06.0	is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating
0:10.2	Mental Health.
0:11.8	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning
0:16.2	Points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:19.3	Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers
0:24.5	and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.6	Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.
0:34.6	Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.0	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.
0:43.6	I'm Meredith Goldstein.
0:59.6	Today, I want to bring on two smart people who've spent a lot of time studying relationships,
1:09.2	how we make them, what we look for in other people, and the rules right or wrong that come
1:15.3	with making those big decisions.
1:18.2	Later in the episode, we'll take a deep dive into one very specific rule we've all heard,
1:23.6	which is that opposites attract.
1:26.7	Is that actually true, though?
1:28.3	Are we drawn to people who are different from us, or do we just seek out our own kind?
1:33.8	But first, I want to introduce you to Lamont White.
1:36.8	Hi, Lamont.
1:37.8	Hi, Meredith.
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