The Surprising Key to Building a Healthy Relationship that Lasts | Maya Diamond | TEDxOakland

18 May 2025


The Surprising Key to Building a Healthy Relationship that Lasts | Maya Diamond | TEDxOakland



Why do some relationships thrive while others fail? Maya Diamond, MFT, MA, Expert Dating & Relationship Coach, has spent over 10 years helping singles find and maintain a loving and healthy relationship. In this talk, she shares the surprising key to a healthy and lasting relationship, the most common blocks to using this key, and how to remove the blocks. Discover how to have the relationship you truly desire and deserve. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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35 Comments
  1. The fact is The break ups/divorces rate are never declining eventhou we have so many countless relationship experts.. why??? Because The key and the only key to have a healthy and happy relationship with your loved ones is to have a close relationship with God first!!! It always starts from God first.. the perfect being who will teach and guide you to have a good n happy ending relationship with others

  2. its way more complicated nowadays. Social media is one of the leading causes of infindelity

  3. This is incredibly one sided! Haha

  4. It's all me not opening up

  5. Her example in the beginning about a lack of emotional responsiveness is valid
    In the example, the partner who just came back from work said that they had a great day so they're not overwhelmed & should be able to pay attention

  6. That's really true from her point of View

  7. Personally I find it really hard to do this because my partner wil think of it as needy since she's prioritizing apps, emails and planning first. This has really killed our relationship. I wish we lived 50 years earlier without all these distractions.

  8. Wow – amazing, insightful, and helpful. Thank you!

  9. The fresh perspective of this content is enlightening. A book with like themes provided a new understanding of life. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

  10. Thank you so much. THere are so many toxic videos out there on how to judge and blame others when you are attempting to navigate a relationship, based on the narcissistic modern dating culture of use then judge and discard. This video is a positive breath of fresh air.

  11. Great talk, and aligns with all I’ve learned over the past decade. I have a lot to offer a future partner, but I will not settle for someone that isn’t emotionally responsive anymore.

  12. Typical…more that a husband has to do and nothing a woman has to do except be emotional. Nothing that a woman's Bumble profile should say. Replacing man and woman with partner is just PC talk. It's so old. Women are convinced that all they have to is be physically be present in a room or house and that is the only requirement for all this stuff a man is supposed to provide. Just stop.

  13. I struggled to hear this message just because it sounded as if men are typically dissociative and that brings up some of my own issues. I am someone who feels like I have been home with max and the iphone takes priority over me. Anywho… it was good presentation, if your able to connect with both parties in these scenarios you may find a large audience.

    😉

  14. Very good. And that will be a very healing relationship. Thank you. I agree whole heartedly. You are a very kind and loving teacher. 🙏🙏🙏 ❤

  15. that was like, the best TedTalk i heard in my life

  16. Are there any examples for when this is not needed?

  17. The husband comes from a long shift , tired and probably fed up and than comes home to cook and do more work! How is this fair, emotionally balanced, or healthy. He will burn out.

  18. a quick answer for the reason why there is more breakups statistically is that there exists the hookup culture

  19. Thank you for the reminder.

  20. My biggest regret is i didn't do that to my partner, now it doesn't matter anymore, no more chance to me to fix this. This video can't bring back my love

  21. Sooo solition is dont ask ur female partner how they day was ??

  22. Short simple and full of facts

  23. I want you to hold the same speech for a man who works in plumbing, and there was a break in a sewer line. I vomited about every 30 seconds because I stood waist-deep in others people's poo until I fixed it.

  24. question is… who's supposed to be taking care of who? Sounds like one is overworking themselves while the other becomes more and more irresponsible.

  25. Everyone has a different way of communicating. My partner needs to decompress quietly on his own. I have to vomit every thought in my head to feel better. So I give him his space to decompress and when he is receptive to talking, I let go. But I've noticed having to wait allows me to dismiss the really unimportant complaints. What this woman is describing is a romance novel. Men and woman do not exercise empathy in similar ways most of the time.

  26. I guess it depends what he does for a living. A desirable partner stays pretty busy taking care of the yard, vehicles, house projects on top of work things and I imagine it’s not easy for them to switch gears and be empathetic to certain types of emotional offloading. My suggestion is keep emotional offloading and complaining to a minimum and stick to constructive criticism.

  27. It’s hard for me to listen; whether it’s from nervousness or something else, adrenaline is like, havin a dadgum RAVE within my sister here—raising her voice register & makin it a bit shrill & shaky, like she is amped up🥴; I also feel like she might pass out any moment and it’s making me feel like I’m running out of breath🫣.. oh god help me, there just one more little thing— that “High School Valedictorian Speech” cadence, which is not something I expected when seeing TED 👀😳😬. I’m gonna have to see if there’s a more recent one she’s done maybe…see how far she’s come along, over time… I’m also gonna pretend this is was her first talk ever.

    I also want to make it clear that I ain’t shitz, and I know it 💖💖💖!! Lol I’m simply unable to ignore those things, & feel like “welp, reckon I might as well point it out so’s to consider by any aspiring *TED-HED*(bahah), lest they make the same mistake…”. It can definitely make what you’re meaning to convey a lot more genuine & impactful, when we’re mindful of such a simple thing as our nerves, & how our body is reacting to excitement such as that.

    Okay, the end

  28. amazing message
    thank u so much

  29. Work on building a healthy relationship and falling in love with the person that you see everyday, who has been through so much pain and heartache, but still manages to gets through it all.❤️

    💙YouTuber That Helps People Overcome Toxic Relationships

  30. The problem is that people can be emotional responsive for a while in the beginning – until you fall in love. Then they become distant and unresponsive. You end up trying to make it work for far longer than we should.

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