This week, I explain strategies to maintain closeness in your relationship with your significant other and why time and trust are critical.


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September 2nd 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,

This week, I explain strategies to maintain closeness in your relationship with your significant other and why time and trust are critical to avoiding catastrophe. Then, I talk with British journalist and activist Tommy Robinson; we discuss the captured media and U.K. government's silencing of the majority population and why he continues to fight for the truth. From the archives, I revisit a conversation with child psychologist Richard Tremblay about whether aggressive behavior in children is learned or present at birth.

Advice

Dedicate Time To Your Relationship

You need to keep the narrative of you and your spouse logged together, like the strands in a rope. You need to spend intimate time together at least once, preferably twice, a week for at least 90 minutes — or you drift apart. That time has to be negotiated. If you do not negotiate and make it a priority, then it will not happen.

Not having that dedicated time together leads to catastrophe because there are not that many elements in life that are intrinsically engaging, meaningful, pleasurable, and bonding. If you let that go, part of you dies along with part of the relationship. Then, the possibility of becoming attracted to alternative entanglements strengthens.

If your relationship at home is entirely unsatisfying, what are you to do? Nothing? Bear it? The answer is yes because it is your marriage. The additional question is: Is that all the fight you have in you? You are just going to let that element of your life die? You are going to accept everything that goes along with that death because you are not willing to cause a bit of trouble to ensure your relationship is maintained?

We are not very good at thinking through these types of scenarios consciously. As far as I can tell, people are bad at negotiating, particularly involving matters that are deeply private. But you must decide how much you want your partner to know about you. Ultimately, it takes a significant amount of trust to have a real conversation about what you want and need.
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‘It’s Going To Be OK’: Jocko Willink On Dealing With Sadness And Forgiving Yourself

The precondition for forgiving yourself is, first of all, to sort out whether or not you are accusing yourself too viciously like a tyrant. Then let’s assume that there is some leftover compelling evidence that you did do something wrong. Now you have to figure out what you did wrong and you have to figure out what you would have done differently and what you will do differently in the future. My sense is, if you can set yourself up so that you have learned from the mistake you made so you would not repeat it, then you get to go on with your life.
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** On The Podcast
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Crime And Punishment | Tommy Robinson | EP 476

In this episode, I talk with British journalist and activist Tommy Robinson. We discuss how peaceful demonstrations have been relentlessly tarred as extremist events, how the captured media and U.K. government have colluded to oppress and silence the majority population, the slew of controversies levied against Tommy — and why he keeps fighting for the truth.
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** From The Archives
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Is Your Child Aggressive By Nature?

During a conversation with child psychologist and Professor of Pediatrics Richard Tremblay, we discussed his research on the development of aggressive behavior in children and the potential for early intervention programs to reduce the chances of children turning to crime in adulthood. In this portion of our talk, Tremblay explains how his research progressed over time, eventually focusing specifically on the physical aggressiveness of juveniles. Though people assume children learn aggression, his research has proven otherwise and shows these behaviors present at birth. Tremblay concludes the assumption that aggression is learned from our environment is not true. Based on his findings, it is, rather, the opposite.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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