📫 Mortality & Relationships – Weekend Words #072

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

February 14, 2026

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Your weekend words are: mortality and relationships.

“Muscle-strengthening activities were associated with a 10–17% lower risk of all-cause mortality.... The maximum risk reduction…was obtained at approximately 30–60 min/week of muscle-strengthening activities.”

— Momma, H., Kawakami, R., Honda, T., & Sawada, S. S. (2022)

More on the benefits of strength training in Tuesday’s email

“Navigating dating and close relationships doesn’t have to be demoralizing. We can first trash overblown claims about the hierarchy of mate value and the accompanying market metaphors.

Also, rejection loses some of its sting when we recognize that the true evolutionary story of human bonding revolves around the search for compatibility in small groups.”

— Paul Eastwick, Bonded By Evolution

More on the science of love and romance in Thursday’s email  

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