57. You Can Talk to Someone All Day and Still Have No Idea What They're Going Through
There have been periods of my life — genuinely hard ones — where I was talking to people every single day. Voice notes, messages, FaceTime, constant check-ins. And not one person knew what I was actually going through. Not because they didn't care.
Because access to someone is not the same as knowing them. This episode names the intimacy paradox: we are the most connected generation in human history, and genuinely knowing someone has never felt harder.
Dr. Harry Reis' decades of intimacy research identified "responsiveness" as the core of genuine closeness — not just replying, but truly…
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