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It's an ordinary Tuesday. A work email needs an answer by noon, a permission slip is due in the morning, and the dentist wants you to confirm by five. All of it gets done. The friend you've meant to call for two months doesn't, and neither does a real conversation with the person you've talked to all week about pickups and dinner.
That doesn't mean you don't care. This episode looks at why tasks with a clock on them keep beating the people who never send a reminder, and why the busier you feel, the stronger that pull seems to be.
It also looks at what one of the longest-running studies of adult life found about relationships at midlife and health decades later, with its limits stated plainly. The answer isn't finding a free evening that never comes. It's giving one relationship a regular place in the week you already have.
Tags staying connected when busy, friendships after kids, making time for friends, busy working parents, relationships and happiness, Harvard happiness study, urgent vs important, daily habits for happiness, 7 Good Minutes
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