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The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED
The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED
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0:04
Let me tell you about Claire.
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Claire is 42, a sharp executive.
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On paper, her marriage is perfect.
0:12
And in my office, she whispered,
0:15
"I feel nothing."
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And then she asked me,
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"Am I asking for too much?"
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Max is 38,
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a founder who has lived happily with Allie for the past four years.
0:29
And yet, he found himself in my office asking me,
0:33
"Do you think she's the one?"
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We all carry stories about how love should be, feel and look like.
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I see this through the lens of my work as a relational psychotherapist,
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psychosexual therapist and social psychologist.
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In the past 20 years,
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I've helped more than thousands of people across the world
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to help them make sense of their relationships
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from the most intimate spaces
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to the most public ones.
1:02
Today, I want you lovelies to look at me as your relationship architect.
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Because I'm here to offer you a blueprint that is evidence-informed
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and is going to introduce you to a whole new model of love
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so that you can develop the loving relationships you desire
1:20
without second-guessing yourself,
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the other person or the relationship.
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I hope you're ready.
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So my colleague and I studied 450 couples
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who've been together anywhere from one
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to 40 years.
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And these couples showed us six essential ingredients.
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And after we analyzed 180,000 data points about them,
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we came up with these six ingredients,
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but also, surprisingly,
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we found out about a whole new model of love
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that I call “emergent love,”
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because it can only exist
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when the six ingredients
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that are essential for thriving relationships
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are present.
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Imagine it as a warm and cozy fire
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that can only be alive
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when all the essential elements are there to keep it going.
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Now when I walk you through these six ingredients,
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you might say, "Oh, they sound familiar,"
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but there's a twist
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because our thriving couples embody them and define them differently.
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Number one is attraction.
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For thriving couples,
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attraction is way beyond sexual chemistry.
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It's only one of the reasons that they come together.
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And in this way,
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attraction is a renewable energy
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because it wants you to be around the person
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and explore new ways of being with them and re-knowing them.
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On the other hand, sexual chemistry is a fleeting biological desire
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that can fizzle out
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when the initial infatuation phase is over.
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I'll tell you what,
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when the novelty part of the relationship is over,
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if you want to chase the chemistry,
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it's as if you're tickling yourself.
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It just doesn't work.
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And then we are convinced
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that we fell out of love with our loved one
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or we chose wrong.
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There is also a daily practice that we observe in thriving couples
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that they didn't name it,
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but in social psychology we have a term for it.
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It's called reciprocal liking.
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What it is basically,
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is if I think that you like me, I like you back.
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It's more likely that I like you back.
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Now these daily signals need to change as we change over time.
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Really think about it.
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Between diaper duty and deadlines,
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where is that signal that says, “I like you?”
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“I’m into this version of you, now.”
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Number two is respect.
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Respect literally means to look again.
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So basically, it's the opposite of taking anyone, including yourself,
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for granted.
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And obedience,
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walking on eggshells, is not respect.
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They are fear.
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Thriving couples have basic etiquette.
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They say hello in the mornings.
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They say good night before they call it a night.
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They don't interrupt.
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They don’t walk away mid-conversation.
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And they don’t cover up sarcasm as humor.
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I often hear, “I’m not respected by my partner.”
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And I ask, "Are you respectable?"
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And there's a pause.
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I say, "Look, do you live by your own principles,
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or are you the first person walking all over them?"
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Do you communicate your boundaries as invitations
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so the other person knows how to be around you
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lovingly, firmly and on time,
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or as passive aggressive ultimatums?
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And do you equally have regard for the other person's boundaries?
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Thriving couples are both respectable and respectful.
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Number three is trust.
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We found that trust has two main pillars.
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One of them is consistency, and one of them is reliability.
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So you have to really be able to have both.
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Now thriving couples know that trust is built and rebuilt
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based on little promises kept over time.
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Not grand and expansive and expensive apologies.
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Think of it this way.
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That you need to show up for one another,
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no matter how big or small the stakes are.
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You can't leave the other person hanging.
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Think about that unpaid bill.
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Think about the second drink you chug down
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and you don't even remember it.
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Think about the private story that was shared public.
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Think about the harmless DMs and likes.
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Number four is compassion, not empathy.
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If empathy is feeling with the other,
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compassion is feeling for the other without losing your own ground.
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Our couples told us
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that overemphasizing and overidentifying can kill your relationship,
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can really drain your relationship.
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Yes, there are moments
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that you would like to commiserate with each other
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or feel those juicy sensations
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when you have erotic empathy with one another.
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But for daily lives, everyday life,
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compassion is the default for these couples.
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Picture this.
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I come home upset.
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You match my intensity to the level that you lose it with me.
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If we are both bleeding, who gets the band-aid?
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So thriving couples can be there for the other
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without making the scenario about themselves.
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Next one is shared vision.
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You need to know where you are going individually and as a couple.
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At least know where you don't want to end up.
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Otherwise, your resources will be scattered,
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and resentment will be inevitable.
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Thriving couples have plans for their days, weeks and years ahead.
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They name a destination,
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and then they prioritize their resources of time,
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energy, attention and money,
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and they commit to them.
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So their daily choices are strategies, not tug of war.
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They also negotiate often what movies to watch tonight.
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They compromise sometimes.
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This holiday at my parents', the other one at yours.
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They sacrifice rarely.
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For example, let's have this relationship long-distance for two years
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until your degree is over.
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They make it time-bound.
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Specific, rewarded, not expected.
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Last but not least is the loving behaviors.
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Loving behaviors show us you don't fall out of love.
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You fall out of loving.
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So one thing that we learned is
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loving, thriving relationships is not unconditional or a given.
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When was the last time that you went out of your way for your partner?
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Do you give each other the benefit of the doubt?
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Thriving couples are tender with their touch, with their words,
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with their presence,
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and they make them exclusive and specific to each other,
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even if other people are in the mix.
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So, for example, if they say "honey,"
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their dog and partner and mom and neighbor,
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everybody don't show up all at the same time.
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(Laughter)
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There you have it, lovelies.
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I offered you an evidence-informed blueprint to build thriving relationships
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so love has a chance to emerge.
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You build what fits your life.
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And tonight we talked about coupledom.
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But trust me, I've seen it over and over again,
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if you master these six ingredients,
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you will rise in all of your relationships.
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Because the way we do one relationship
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is the way we do them all.
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And if you're going to take one thing out of our time together tonight,
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let it be this.
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Everyone can
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and deserves
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to be in the loving relationships they desire.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
