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Modern Love Podcast
By Anna Martin - 7/5/2026, 7:18 PM - 725 words
Faulty reasoning signals
- Confirmation Bias - 0.4% (3 hits)
- Anchoring Bias - 0%
- Availability Heuristic - 3.4% (25 hits)
- Representativeness Heuristic - 0%
- Hindsight Bias - 5.4% (39 hits)
- Overconfidence Bias - 2.5% (18 hits)
- Framing Effect - 1.2% (9 hits)
- Loss Aversion - 0%
- Status Quo Bias - 1.7% (12 hits)
- Sunk Cost Effect - 1% (7 hits)
- Optimism Bias - 4.7% (34 hits)
- Pessimism Bias - 2.1% (15 hits)
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The chef and writer wants men to do better.
Himself included.
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How Getting Stoned With My Dad Helped Us Heal
It took a painful reckoning with history, and a lot of cannabis, to bring Julian Brave NoiseCat and his father back together.
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Laverne Cox Is Ready to Tell the Truth.
Even if It’s Messy.
The actor always knew what she wanted.
Getting there was more complicated.
By Anna Martin
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I Tried to Have a Kid With My Best Friend.
It Got Complicated.
Two queer friends dreamed of raising a child together.
They almost made it real.
By Anna Martin, Reva Goldberg, Davis Land, Sara Curtis, Elisa Gutierrez, Lynn Levy, Daniel Ramirez, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Pat McCusker
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Is Codependency Good?
The filmmaking duo Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton sure think so.
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Love Lessons From Ramy Youssef’s Dog
What the comedian’s dog has taught him about unconditional love.
By Anna Martin
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Isabel Allende and Her Mother Told Each Other (Almost) Everything
The novelist and her mom connected through writing letters.
Over 24,000 of them.
By Anna Martin
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My Mom Had a Secret Daughter.
I Finally Found Her.
Tracy Clark-Flory, a writer, on meeting her long-lost sister and how her mother’s life was shaped by being sent away to a “home for unwed mothers” in the 1960s.
By Anna Martin
Illustration by Brian Rea
No, I Won’t Be Your Bridesmaid
The writer Ruhama Wolle is done with the role and its expectations.
But for anyone facing a wave of weddings, she has tips.
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Friends for 16 Years.
Lovers for One Night.
(Encore)
They always wondered what it would be like to sleep together.
By the time they were ready to find out, it was almost too late.
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I Tried Everything to Escape My Heartbreak.
Only This Worked.
Faced with a sudden end to her marriage, Lauren Bans found relief in an unexpected place.
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Elizabeth Banks Married Her College Sweetheart.
They’re Still in Love.
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My Husband’s Breakdown Was My Breakthrough
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My Husband Did.
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But, she found, she had to make that decision over and over again.
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