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Jun 2025
26m 44s

29. What We Can Learn From 3000 Years of...

Anna Howard | Podcast Strategist
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Why is love SO intertwined with ownership? Let's cut that sh*t out! Resources mentioned: - All About Love by Bell Hooks- what the self help industry has wrong about...everything by Jamila Bradley- Love is Not Enough by Museguided- Fake Fairness is Killing Our Relationships -- And It's Everywhere- George Akolade Coker's Relationship Anarchy SmorgasbordTimestamps: 00:00 - intro 00:53 - Brilliant Sponsorship 02:03 - The flaws in our language around romantic relationships03:30 - pathologizing desire 06:10 - extracting ownership from love 11:20 - Why we're all afraid of commitment14:11 - A brief and incomplete history of love & marriage 17:00 - How to introduce equity to romantic relationships 22:00 - Relationship Anarchy 24:25 - Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord


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