Paths / Psychology
Attachment and the Long Game.
The way to learn something properly. On the schedule you actually have. About what you actually want to understand.
A 7-day path. Fifteen minutes a day.
Three writers on adult partnership.
The last two decades have produced a more useful working science of adult romantic relationships than the previous several centuries managed. Three writers have done the most to make it accessible. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller translated attachment theory into a framework for adult dating and partnership. Sue Johnson built Emotionally Focused Therapy into one of the most evidence-supported couples interventions ever developed. Esther Perel articulated the central tension of long-term partnership — that the conditions for security and the conditions for desire are not the same, and that healthy long relationships find ways to hold both. Seven days of small daily lessons on what the science actually says, with appropriate caution about where the popular framings have gotten ahead of the evidence.
Three books, one problem.
Day 1 frames the path. Why adult relationships need their own science. What the three writers share as an alternative to the folk wisdom that came before. And the honest caveats — the simplifications baked into the popular attachment framing, the lighter evidence base for Perel, the strong replication record behind Sue Johnson's clinical work. You leave Day 1 with the shape of the week and a sentence about your own current relationship situation that the rest of the path will be in conversation with.
Day 1 of any path is free in the app.
Each day, one idea. In sequence.
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