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Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

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and the goal of doing this isn't to agree one-hundred percent on every single thing. it's to understand how you both view obligations, family, friends, finances, conflict, etc. and to make sure that even if you don't have the exact same perspective, you can understand where the other person is coming from without feeling like they're a crazy person. you have to be able to come to reasonable compromises and sometimes that involves one person fully caving, and sometimes it involves the other person fully caving, and sometimes it's both of you giving a little, but you need to understand what things you both are and aren't willing to compromise on because those types of situations are going to come up in a marriage.

I have a particular tone of ‘sure honey’ that says ‘that is not the decision I would make, but clearly this matters a lot more to you than me so do what you want and I’ll deal with it.’

And as prev notes, sometimes it really is a matter of “who cares more”

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