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Podcast: Sexvangelicals
Episode: S3E02: Partnership Building: How Evangelicalism Stifles Curiosity
Description: This summer, we're exploring the seven characteristics to healthy relationships, through John Gottman's Sound Marital House theory of relationships. Gottman suggests that curiosity is the root of a strong foundation for a relationship. Curiosity, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is the strong desire to know or learn something. In this episode, we talk about how EMPish (Evangelical, Mormon, and Pentecostal) communities discourage curiosity, and the ways that people can learn and practice curiosity in your relationship. We discuss: Cognitive Room (11:40): Julia summarizes, "The Gottman's suggested that the more facts that a person had...