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EPISODE · Aug 25, 2025 · 59 MIN

Why Humans Are Wired For Relationships

from Playing Books · host Worthscope

This practical episode uncovers the fundamental longing in every human, the need and development of relationships with others. Since infancy, everyone lives with the desire to relate to others. No one can outgrow this principal desire. We want meaningful human connections. We may think we need more money, a beautiful house, a high-paying job,influential position, but underneath that is the burning desire to want people who love us, appreciate us, are always available for us, and stand by us, rain or shine.Relationships that reciprocate love, time, money, and fulfillment will ever drive all humans, admittedly or not. Who better describes this innate desire in us than W. R. D. Fairbairn? Fairbairn’s Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality concludes that the need for relationships is ever the central focus of every human’s development, existence, and making meaning of each of these.Before you spend or keep spending thousands of dollars in therapy, this episode challenges you to scrutinize your relationships, starting with the relationship with yourself. Have you been a worthwhile person in your relationships? In making sense of others, it is a significant step to check their relationships to save time, money, medical, and other resources in checking other areas.No one is anti-social as generally thought and accepted. We are all active social beings. We love good companies, which control to a large extent our happiness, health, and fulfillment in career and life.Please, get W. R. D. Fairbairn’s Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality on Amazon, https://amzn.to/3HGs0aW, and delve deeper into all the aspects it covers, and you should start to lead a happier life. Follow, subscribe, share, comment, and recommend the Playing Book podcast and this episode. Thank you.

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