Love Lessons: Using Sex Therapy to Improve Every Relationship
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We choose the degree to which we invest in relationships.
Active listening is a two-way street.
The relationship escalator is that idea: we hopped on the escalator at the same time, we're all going to go at the same pace.
Let's say I want to live in New York, my partner wants to live in LA. The solution is not to move to Kansas. No one is happy. We all lose.
In a world with the relationship escalator and the expectation that monogamy is the only way to do things, we cultivate jealousy.