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If this is your first Z-Pack, welcome - I'm Zach.

I’m chronically online, finding out how the world works.

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🔥 Hot Take Friday

Ahhhh, 🌹 ~ love ~ 🌹

Buying your partner flowers, going on a 🔥 date, building that new Lego set - the good stuff.

You do these things for many reasons - they’re fun, refreshing, and you want to keep your partner satisfied, right?

Doing stuff like chores for your partner, for example, could be considered an act of service, which is considered to be a type of “love language,” a concept popularized by Dr. Gary Chapman in his best-selling book The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts.

This guy popularized the idea that finding your partner’s “love language” (acts of service, words of affirmation, etc.) is the secret sauce to making your relationship long-lasting.

Well… here’s what current research says about that 👇

The headlines: here’s a bunch of random ideas and theories that can help you in your relationships, and we’ll make sure you think are legit, even though they’re actually just theories 🤡

The reality: once again, we keep mistaking theory as reality — it’s actually more complex than that! There’s no one solution, theory or prescription to guarantee your relationship with your partner will last forever, but, if you want to make it work, there are some legitimate studies that point to helpful practices.

Not sure about y’all, but when I first read the book, I was like, “is it just me, or do all these things sound pretty nice?” - looks like it wasn’t just me!

Also, watch out for the grifters and charlatans in the water 🦈 - like the off-brand Andrew Tate guys, such as Fresh and Fit, who push INSANE beliefs, like how men should always try and “alpha” around, how women are only shallow and materialistic, etc.

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Still curious?

• Check out Drs. John and Julie Gottman’s 4 Horsemen of Relationships - Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness and Stonewalling, to understand how people in long-lasting relationships keep the good times going
  

• As a tangential point, this tweet really nails why so many men are trash at both romantic relationships and friendships — they suck at understanding, labelling, and communicating their emotions, which is why I recommend this book

Here are some 🔥 tweets for your day —

If you haven’t heard of who Roaring Kitty is and how he basically upended the stock market by betting HUGE on GameStop, boy do I have news for you (btw, you can watch the movie Dumb Money about this) —

If you haven’t heard about how/why the Biden admin is suing the live entertainment company, Live Nation, watch the artist Jon Bellion give you a nice, brief explainer —

Until next week 🍻

Thanks for taking the Pack,

Zach

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