MasterClass on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Why We Stay in Bad Relationships, Solved

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Mark Manson
Mark Manson
May 20, 2026
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This episode is brought to you by MasterClass. You know what nobody tells you about bad relationships? The problem usually isn't that you picked the wrong person. It's that nobody ever taught you how to be in a relationship in the first place. You've never seen healthy conflict. You've never heard someone model what it sounds like to set a boundary without blowing everything up. And that's actually what got me into Esther Perel's class on MasterClass. She talks about how the person you're attracted to isn't random. It's connected to patterns that you've been running since childhood. And the thing that stuck with me is this idea that the quality of your relationships is determined by the quality of the conversations you're willing to have. Hearing that from someone who spent decades sitting across from couples, it lands differently than simply reading it in a book. And that's what makes MasterClass different.

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast
Why We Stay in Bad Relationships, Solved
Host: Mark Manson
Publisher: Mark Manson