Thrive Solo

Minisode Ep.219 — Are Humans Meant To Be With One Person Forever?

July 25, 2026·11 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Send us Fan Mail In this week's minisode, I'm asking a question that I've genuinely been wondering about for a long, long time: are human beings actually meant to spend 20, 30, 40 or 50 years with the same romantic partner? I'm not questioning love or relationships themselves, but the societal expectation that we're all supposed to couple up, get married and stay together forever. We explore where that script came from, why so many people struggle to live up to it, and whether we've been cond...

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