Which Long-term Relationships Will Survive and Which Won't
From the outside, it seems impossible to predict whether a couple will break up or stay together...unless we fathom the fundamental reason why all breakups occur. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/DIJHC Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/PuhS3 FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/35ibdHq “It can seem very confusing why certain long-term relationships survive and some don’t. It can — from afar — look as if it’s the most cruel and alarming sort of lottery. Trying to explain love to a child or a visitor from another planet promises to be a perplexing matter indeed: all couples on their wedding day are united in wanting to make things work. Then, for reasons beyond anyone’s comprehension, some of them simply seem to dissolve and others don’t.To remove some of the terrifying element of apparent chance (and encourage us to work on the right aspects of our own couples), it may be helpful to become deliberately reductive about the real reasons why breakups occur…” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: / theschooloflifelondon X: / theschooloflife Instagram: / theschooloflifelondon CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Tiaan Trutter https://www.artstation.com/tiaantruter Title animation produced in collaboration with Vale Productions https://www.valeproductions.co.uk/

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