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Bryan Johnson talks about meeting his partner Kate and what makes their relationship work. He emphasizes mutual joy over expectations, and says the key is doing the hard work and not settling for less than what you actually want.
Bryan Johnson talks about meeting his partner Kate and what makes their relationship work. He emphasizes mutual joy over expectations, and says the key is doing the hard work and not settling for less than what you actually want.
Okay, let me watch this.
Normal jaws, they have like a little indentation.
Wait, hold on, hold on. Wait, Just turn. I'm not saying, like, use instruments to try to. I'm saying, ow. That hurts. Kate and I met, I believe, around five years ago. We got into a relationship three years ago and we've been working on it since.
Gimme a wink.
I guess I can model out in my mind what I think the reactions will be. There will be joy, there will be mocking, there will be hate. Like there's going to be a little bit of everything. But by sharing this with others, it could be a good influence in others who are either looking for or working on their own relationship. When I was growing up, I would try to find marriages that I wanted to emulate and they were hard to come by. Good relationships are really rare. And Kate is important to me because she really does feel like my other half. She feels like self and, you know, when she hurts, I hurt. When I feel joy, she feels joy.
Do we need to go to the rental place counter?
No, please say it. Nar. No, no. Say. It's a cool thing about our relationship is we don't have any expectations of each other and we really value our conscious experience. We don't want to waste it in a misaligned relationship or in something that's not producing joy. So much of our lives are shared with each other, and I've been adrift, looking for deep companionship. It's taken me basically my entire adult life to find this.
Hi, Brian.
Hi. And so for those of you who also have a vision for deep companionship, I would say keep at may take longer than you think, but it's really not worth settling. And if you're in a relationship already and you're not feeling that deep commitment, I would commit to try to make it so that you can invest and can mature a relationship so you both get the deep joy that they offer. So it's worth hard work, it's worth the persistence that's required. And a lot of people are very quick to pull the eject button. And I think that it's worth the hard work to build these relationships. So I just say keep on going and do the hard work.
