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What are relationships anyway?

What are relationships anyway?

Update: 2025-12-21
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Relationships – what are they? We often think of relationships as intimate with a partner and yet we actually have hundreds of relationships with friends, family, at work, at play even with nature and beyond.

Clare and Aileen kick off the season by discussing the breadth of relationships.

Check out some of the things Clare and Aileen chat about:

02:01 Hierarchy of friends

05:00 Relationships we don’t choose

08:56 Relationship with myself

11:36 So what are relationships?

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About the Sex and Relationships Podcast

This podcast is for anyone looking for information or help with their sex lives or relationships. In this season your hosts Clare Prendergast and Aileen Gonsalves deep dive into the world of relationships to give you insights, advice and top tips to help guide you through your relationships.

Your hosts

Clare Prendergast is a sex and relationships therapist and draws on her knowledge and years of experience in the therapy room to give you help and guidance.

Aileen Gonsalves is fascinated in human behaviour and drawing on her many years in the theatre has developed the unique Gonsalves Method which helps people be more present and develop authentic connections with those around them.

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