All right, welcome everybody to today's episode.

I'm Dr. Gary Lewandowski, Chief Love Scientist here at Love Strategies, and I'm flying solo today to talk to you about you can do life alone, but here's why you shouldn't want to.

Today's episode starts off, I guess the idea from this came from some common advice that we know is out there.

Right. And it's this advice that you don't need to depend on anyone else, especially not a romantic partner, to succeed or be happy.

Now, that's super enticing. It's empowering sounding. but it's a myth that's actually making people more

miserable than they should be. There's even there's a, well, this is the less cynical version of,

you hear these other things that people will say like being single is cheaper than getting a

divorce lawyer. And like, okay, that's getting a divorce lawyer and like okay that's

terrible right we know that that's that's bad advice but i also think that this general idea is

sometimes wrapped up in girl power or girl boss mentality where it's a you know we don't need men

to make us happy.

And you know what I'd say to that?

I'd say you're right, but you're also wrong.

And I think it comes from this mistaken idea that you can be perfectly happy and healthy going it alone.

Now, that's not 100% incorrect, but this is the false premise that independence

and self-sufficiency is the ultimate goal, which I would argue, it's not. That's not the ultimate

goal because there's a difference between something being okay, viable, acceptable,

enjoyable, fulfilling in many ways, right? It can be all those things. Being single and not being

in a relationship can be all of those things. But I would also argue it's still not the most

ideal outcome. And so in today's episode, I'm going to share what I mean,

a lot of support, a lot of science, some stories,

maybe a little soul wrapped up in there,

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