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Strangers on the Internet: Podcast Episode 9 Available
A bonus episode to explore long-term happiness in relationships
I posted the ninth episode of my podcast "Strangers on the Internet" (the direct link for Apple Podcasts is here and for Spotify is here). Psychologist Michelle Lange and I explore this time the academic research on and our personal experiences with maintaining long-term happiness in romantic relationships. How can people apply the Golden Rule (and even better, the Platinum Rule) in this context? Is there anything to the Five Love Languages theory? We take a plunge into the work of John and Julie Gottman, Esther Perel, and other experts.
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Still, the story matters because it fits into a broader pattern of payoffs, including from AMI, being used to cover up stories about Trump sex scandals. Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen says he paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to not tell the story of a tryst she says she had with Trump back in 2006; Trump denies knowledge of the payment, but the question of whose money was used remains open — and now potentially under federal investigation.
AMI also, in August 2016, paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal, who also says she had an affair with Trump, in exchange for her story, which it also buried. AMI itself appears to have made that payment, but when the FBI raided Cohen’s law offices, reports emerged suggesting that agents were specifically looking for records on the Daniels and McDougal payoffs. That raises obvious questions about who actually funded those payments.
Dino Sajudin’s story of an out-of-wedlock Trump child raises even more of those questions, as well as the question of just how many payoff deals Trump or allied institutions like AMI have made. In Michael Wolff’s explosive book on the Trump White House, Fire and Fury, former campaign chair turned White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted as saying of Trump’s personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz, “Kasowitz on the campaign — what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/12/17230498/donald-trump-national-enquirer-child-30000-doorman-joe-mika-payoff-hush-money-scandal-housekeeper
Am I doing this right Prof. Manta?
What has she done?
Today, on “TDS Gone Wild”, ….