True love — and the myth of "happily ever after" | Francesca Hogi

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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"The fairytale industrial complex has been lying to you," says love coach and podcast host Francesca Hogi. Having spent years talking to thousands of people about their romantic hopes and dreams, she introduces a new possibility for our collective romantic future, one that recognizes that each of us holds the keys to true love within ourselves.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh you're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:05.4	Love Coach and Podcast host Francesca Hoagie says our visions of romantic relationships
0:11.3	are all wrong.
0:13.0	What we learn about love from movies, books, and TV
0:16.7	can actually disconnect us from the love we seek.
0:20.4	She explains in her talk from the TED 2023 stage after the break.
0:27.0	The fairy tale industrial complex has been lying to you.
0:32.0	Through a pervasive web of market. has been lying to you.
0:35.6	through a pervasive web of marketing, advertising, music, movies and more,
0:39.4	it's said that while youification of romantic love,
0:43.0	you can buy your worthiness of being loved.
0:46.0	Its commodification of romantic love as a storybook fantasy
0:50.0	can be summed up in three simple words,
0:53.0	happily ever after.
0:55.0	Happiness forever, if only you're lucky enough
1:01.0	and good-looking enough
1:04.5	to be chosen by a high status partner, ideally in a romantic comedy-worthy moment.
1:10.5	Over the last 10 years, I have spoken to thousands of people about their romantic
1:16.5	hopes and dreams and I can report that for many their vision of an ideal
1:21.4	relationship is straight out of the fairy tale fantasy playbook,
1:26.6	which is no wonder, given that happily ever after
1:30.1	is used to sell us everything from makeup to cars to chewing gum.
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