Gossip & Simple Life

Want a stronger bond with your significant other? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that says if you gossip together it improves your relationship. Plus, if you want to be happy, live the simple life.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. Well,
if your relationship is on the rocks, try bad mouthing
your family and friends together. A new study of UC
riverside in California found gossiping with your significant other can
improve your relationship. Couples that gossip together tend to be
happier and have better relationships. Overall, seventy six couples wore

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special devices and agreed to have their conversations recorded throughout
the day. Fourteen percent of their entire day was taped.
Researchers found that when we spend an average of thirty
eight minutes of day gossiping, twenty nine of those minutes
are spent gossiping with our significant other. There are biggest
partner in crime. The researchers think gossiping together makes us
closer because it's a form of emotional bonding, or it

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reinforces the idea that you're on the same team. It
doesn't matter if it's positive or negative gossip. Quote negatively,
Gossiping on the way home from a party could signal
the couple's bond is stronger than with friends at the party.
The possible positive gossip could prolong fun experiences that you had,
So go ahead and gossip with your partner, just don't

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be talking about me deeper in the two. Well, if
you're working all day and night just to afford a
new simple gadget, you're doing it wrong. A new study
found that a simpler life really does make people happier.
People who keep it simple, don't work too much, and
don't buy too much junk tend to live happier lives.
One main reason is it tends to strengthen our social bonds.
They define the simple life by breaking it into five

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simple categories. If you do these things, you're currently living
this simple life. Like material simplicity, you don't buy a
lot of stuff you don't need. Self sufficiency includes things
like cooking. Most of your mails are even growing your food.
Local procurement. You buy local, not somebody who buys everything
on Amazon. Resource conservation, you don't waste food, and you

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repair things instead of replacing him. Beneficence, and that's the
most important one. It's sharing skills, resources and help. Building
a community in other words, and that means you're close
and generous with your neighbors. If you need a couple
of shit, you're not going to instacart it. Then if
you do, you're probably not living the simple life. Study
found most of the stuff leads to stronger social bonds.

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That's the main reason it makes us happier. The more
of a community you have, the happier you will be
living the simple life. What if you're just living as
a simple ton? Tune it again for another episode of
Deeper in the Den with dangerous Dave right here.