# Arthur Aron

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E-131 Want to Be Happier? Find your people. Here’s how I did it

One of the most powerful things you can do for your happiness and health (and creativity), has nothing to do with supplements, your routine, or your schedule. Spoiler alert…it’s about adventure, new people and feeling a bit “new” In this episode, Beth Buffington shares how a four-day, 153-mile t…

Two Essential Paths to Intimacy: Joy and Connection

In this crowning summer episode every listener needs to lean in for, Christa unpacks the two paths back to each other: connection, the path of being deeply known, grounded in John Gottman's research on love maps and turning toward bids, and joy, the path of shared aliveness, grounded in Arthur Aron…

Why We Stop Wanting the People We Love

What if desire doesn't fade because something broke — but because something worked? This episode sits with one of the quietest, most disorienting turns in a long relationship: loving someone completely, and slowly stopping wanting them. Not from neglect — from success. From finally building the clo…

Forget Small Talk: Go Deep Instead

Most of us default to small talk. It's polite, familiar, and feels like the safest way to start a conversation. But it may also be one of the biggest barriers to genuine connection. Dr. Laurie speaks with author and metal-health advocate Claire Eastham about her month-long experiment replacing sma…

The Friendship Experiment: 36 Questions That Create Deep Female Friendships (Pt. 1/3)

Be part of the experiment by joining us here: https://forms.gle/zVr3Dt9CKGPVg55r7 Introducing The Friendship Experiment: We're lonelier than ever. Despite being more connected than any generation before us, loneliness is now being called the epidemic of our lifetime. Coupled with the fact that mak…

What makes love last? With Arthur Aron, PhD

Most of us expect the intensity of new love to fade over time. But some couples remain deeply in love for the long haul, even after years or decades together. What sets those relationships apart? Are some couples just lucky? Or are there things that you can do to sustain love, or rekindle it, in an…

Relationships 2.0: Keeping Love Alive

There's no magic potion that can make someone adore you. But there are things you can do to promote a deep and enduring connection — and even feelings of passion — between yourself and your partner. In the final chapter of our Relationships 2.0 series, psychologist Arthur Aron shares some technique…

Friendship Isn't Magic: Jessica Gifford, Founder, ProjectConnect

Jessica Gifford grew up in a tiny community of hippies, peace activists, and draft dodgers who built their own one-room schoolhouse. From kindergarten through eighth grade she was with the same 15 kids, so she never learned how to meet people. Her fix came at college: become the RA. It's easier to …

Why the Spark Fades in Marriage, and How to Wake It Back Up

How Lifelong Lovers Keep Wanting Each Other Last week we kept talking about the work of stopping damage. That work matters. If contempt, unbridled expression, or defensiveness are running the house, you do not need a new date-night idea first. You need to stop the bleeding. This episode is about wh…

One Simple Habit for a Happier Marriage? Not So Fast

A new study of about 1,700 married couples found that partners who exercise together, usually by walking, tend to have stronger marriages, and the headlines quickly turned that into "one simple habit for a happier relationship." In this short episode I use that study to walk through one of the most…