Checkup From the Neck-Up Archive

Checkup From the Neck-Up, Episode 34 – “Singlehood,” Relationships, Happiness, and “Attachment”

by Joel Stockton

September 30, 2025

Half of us now live without a partner, about double what it was 20 to 30 years ago.  Dr. Jeewon Oh, a personality-social psychology researcher at Syracuse University, discusses how our sense of security between us and other people, and within ourselves, affects our happiness, whether in a relationship or in “singlehood.”  Host “Dr. Neckup” Rich O’Neill, and she talk about how to increase our sense of “secure attachment” and how to boost our partners’ as well, with their particular “attachment style” in mind.