Language of Love with Dr. Laura Berman - Love and Translation with Sangita Patel

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

Can love truly transcend language barriers? Is it possible for two souls to connect in the absence of a shared vocabulary? These questions have puzzled philosophers, poets, and love-struck individuals for centuries. In this Language of Love Conversation, I am thrilled to be joined by Sangita Patel, Canadian TV personality from Love and Translation, to discuss the complexities of finding love across language barriers. Love and Translation is a social experiment reality show where American men and women, who don't speak English, try to form connections without a common language. The women have translators, but the men must use nonverbal cues, engaging in activities like eye gazing and smelling competitions to see if love can grow without words. We dive into: Nonverbal communication and cultural differences in relationships The impact of hormonal contraceptives on attraction Importance of maintaining emotional and physical connection in relationships Importance of communication and affection in relationships, and especially in parenting The power of nonverbal communication and the potential for love to transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries Remember to watch the Love and Translation show to discover more about Sangita's work. Follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook to learn more about her projects. And don't forget to visit my website for a free 30-day challenge that will elevate your intimacy to the next level! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, I'm sex, love, and relationship therapist, Dr. Laura Berman. And for the past 30 years, I've been helping people just like you learn to love and be loved better. Here on the Language of Love Conversations, I'm talking to some of the world's most influential and revolutionary experts, thought leaders, spiritual teachers, and celebrities about love, sex, and relationships from a mind, body, and spirit perspective. And that way, my goal is to awaken your mind, body, and soul. It's time to become fluent in the language of love. Sangeeta Patel is a Canadian television personality and is the host of the brand new show, Love and Translation. Really interesting concept.

The question is sort of a social experiment. It is airing on TLC and streaming on Max. But the question is, can you discover love with someone with whom you cannot verbally communicate because of a complete language barrier? Really interesting concept. We get into the show and most importantly, what Sangeeta discovered and learned about love and whether or not it really can cross the language barrier. That's what we're getting into on this episode of The Language of Love.

Sangeeta, welcome to the show. I'm so glad you could join us on the Language of Love. I'm so excited to be here with you because I love the setting of your room, the cap, everything. You just have this great energy. I love it. Thanks. Yeah, this is my little pink heart-centered face here that gets me in the mode for love. And this show is all about how to love and be loved better from a mind, body, and spiritual perspective. And so I'm really excited to talk to you in particular about this new show that you've launched on TLC, because it's really interesting. I mean, obviously we have the whole love is blind thing, these kind of social experiments, so to speak,

around, can you fall in love with someone without ever seeing them? Can you fall in love with someone without ever meeting them? Can you, you know, all these different questions. You now have this new show called Love and Translation on TLC. And this experiment is really interesting because you have both cultural, which lots of relationships have, cultural barriers, but you also have language barriers, which I thought was pretty fascinating. So tell us the premise there. What extent is the like, because my understanding is that There is no translator. There is no like you're communicating without words, basically. So, yeah. So the premise of it is we have three guys from the United States coming down to this beautiful villa in paradise, ready to meet their match.

And we got women from around the world, from Brazil to France to Germany, and they all come down and the guys don't know that the girls don't actually speak English. so can you fall in love without the use of language and what I always say is that 90% of our communication is non-verbal so I love the idea of the social experiment to see if they can actually fall in love and it's interesting the first episode I meet the guys and the girls and for the girls I actually give them translators so they can communicate within the girls group and I can communicate with them as well but not the guys they're kind of left out of it and so I send the guys into the back and I go go meet the girls and they're like what is happening they can't communicate they're they're picking up blueberries they're talking about blueberries they're dancing

they're doing whatever they can to communicate with these girls and that i right off the top i'm fascinated to see how they're gonna figure this out right and then they go through these experiments we do these social experiments one of them was eye gazing imagine sitting down with someone and looking into their eyes for two minutes can you fall in love can you make that connection through your eyes and it was fascinating to watch especially one of the guys i could tell that he's falling for this girl or there's some kind of emotional bond that happens between them and she starts getting emotional she starts crying and like there's something about that moment and then we do a smelling competition where they have to i make the guys do push-ups and they're

sweating and i make the girls smell them and see if they like their pheromones and to kissing and and the tone of your voice so we go through all these experiments and i had to tell you there is some success wink wink so it's uh it's really fascinating to watch it unfold yeah it's interesting because, well, just even the two exercises you mentioned, eye gazing is something that I have established couples do as a therapist. Like if they synchronize their breath, it's called soul gazing, right? And they stare into their partner's eye above their heart. So from where you're sitting, it's your partner's right eye. And then they, it's actually their left eye, but it's on, you know, on your right and staring into it. And the first like 10 seconds, 30

seconds. You're cringing. You're awkward. I can't imagine doing that with basically a complete stranger who you think is hot and you can't even communicate with. But after a few minutes, I mean, I've done this on retreats. I've done this with friends. I've done this obviously with my partner. I've had couples do it. You go deep. It's actually an extremely bonding exercise. So I think it's interesting because it's not just an experiment in the context of this show. It probably also was a bonding exercise. A hundred percent. Yeah. And it was also the culture part, like you said it off the top, we had a girl that was from Japan and in their culture, it's disrespectful to look into someone's

eyes. And so for her, it was a very difficult task to get over. And then she realized she had to make these adjustments. And then she starts doing that in the next few episodes where she does look into their eyes and she feels this empowerment from the other girls and say, I'm a confident woman. I can do this. And, and that's a beautiful thing too, to see her kind of pull away from her norm of her culture and say, I can be this woman and I could be an empowered woman. So it was really interesting that way as well. And can they communicate, can the girls, the women communicate with each other offline? Like when they're hanging out together, even without you, can they communicate with one another with translators?

Yeah. And they, they have their translators 24 hours. They can use it whichever way they want with each other and you will also see that you'll see some of the girls bonding more with other girls and and then the the jealousy starts to start the drama starts to start like all that starts coming out and and it's even for them even for even with the translator there's some frustration again culturally too like another example for the girl from ari from japan like for her to see some of these girls come out in their swimsuits fully on like she doesn't understand that she's like is this how you're supposed to approach love is this the way you make a guy attracted to you. And that's not her norm. So even that, so yeah, the little cattiness part

comes out definitely because once the girl knows which guy she wants to approach, she wants to eliminate her, her challengers. Right. So it's, yeah, I get to see all of that kind of unfold. Yeah. And there's an interesting tidbit about pheromones absolutely exist. And you and the producers probably came up with this idea from this study that was done that women prefer the smell of men, you know, when it's blinded of men who have something called different MHC from them, myohistocompatibility complex is what it stands for, but basically means they have a different immune system. So they're not from your gene pool, right? So it makes sense you're going to be physiologically, but there's one caveat, which I think will be interesting for these

people on this show, especially if some love connections are made. If you are on hormonal contraceptives, your sniffer is off. You are going to be attracted to the smell of someone with similar MHC to you. That's interesting. Yeah. People don't know that. I did not know that. I know for myself, I've been married for 20 years with the same partner for 26 years. And when he goes away, I put his t-shirt next to me in my bed. It's just comfort. There's something about his smell that just, I didn't know that, but that's really interesting. Yeah. Yeah. So be careful about your sniffer. Your sniffer may be off with who you're, it doesn't necessarily, it's not guaranteed, but if you're on hormonal contraceptives, trick your body into thinking

it's pregnant. So when you're pregnant, you're not looking for someone other gene pool. You're looking for family and connection and support. You know, that's, what's in our DNA. We're not looking to get laid when we're pregnant from an evolutionary perspective. I mean, I mean, by a stranger, like a new partner, you know, when you're pregnant, historically in the caveman times you were pulling back from your sexual explorations right and you were kind of with your co-parent or with your family or whatever and so that's why scientists believe that women on the pill and pregnant women are more attracted to men very cool yeah it's kind of interesting so i find this you can see i geek out about this stuff i find it really fascinating

And I've watched some of the early episodes and it is really interesting. You know, I remember my husband and I have talked about this. I mean, we knew each other as young kids, but we didn't get together until our 30s. But we both had periods of time where we traveled a lot overseas and didn't speak the language. And both of us had romances with people with whom we couldn't communicate, although we very quickly learned the language, right? That's one of the best ways to learn a new language is find a lover with that language and you learn it real quick.

But there was that period of trying to communicate who you are, questions, information, thoughts, and ideas without the use of language. It's really interesting. Yeah. And I think that's the other thing. There's this development of touch. and you see, you know, one of the guys, I feel like he's a little bit more aggressive with his touch. Well, another one is more caressing and, and the way the women react to that, you know,

some prefer a more aggressive type of touch rather than another one. And so to see that as well, it's, it was nice to see some of the girls kind of change the guy they want to be with because of that. Right. So it's interesting to see all the different dynamics that could change your mind is from the gazing there. She liked one guy, but then from the touch, you like the other guy. So it's like, which one feels great to you? Well, can't you train up your touch better? I mean, I feel like you could train that. Like that would be interesting to do without language, right? Let me show you how I like to be touched. Touched. Yeah. So you've been married for 20 something years, obviously. I don't know. I mean, I know you've

done a lot of television and entertainment and you're on social media and you have a big following, but you probably haven't done a love and relationship show before, right? Yeah, no. So I was on Entertainment Tonight, Canada hosting and been on that for 10 years doing entertainment. And then I did HGTV Canada's Home to Win where we gave a house away. It was incredible experience. So this was my first time doing a reality show. Yeah. Oh, even a reality show, much less a relationship show. The relationship show. Yeah. So for me going into it was a learning experience because I didn't know if it's legit or not. And it's legit. So I would shoot all day and then they'll like say, go home, Sangeeta. We'll see you tomorrow. I'm like, no, I want to see, I want to see what happens at the end of the night, what's going on. And in the morning, they'll give me a little briefing. And then there's, there's an episode that's coming up where I sit down and have an IV in my ear and they're telling me all this information of the things that happened. And so my face is like, what did she really, did she sleep with him?

What? Yeah. He has a child. Like what is happening? What would you do with that information? They would tell you that. And then what was the point? I mean, I can imagine it would make it fascinating, but what were you, were you like interviewing

them? And then, yeah, so I would be sitting down with them and getting a briefing of what's going on. So kind of figuring, and that's one of the things that I loved about the show. I felt like the mother of the show, because anytime they needed to speak to someone, I was there. The girls to the guys, you know, there's moments with the guys, they were feeling vulnerable. So I would sit down with them and have a discussion and just kind of listen where they are. There was a moment in the episode that just passed, one of the girls was not comfortable

being there anymore. And I kind of stopped everything. And I completely forgot about this moment until I saw it on the show. But I walk over to and I go, listen, you could take use your voice for this, this experiment and tell them how you're feeling, like not walk away. Don't be upset. Tell them how you're, this is the feeling you're having. And so that was great too. So I think that was important for me to kind of be there for them when they knew I could be there to discuss whatever they needed. But the reason too, for that was because I sit down with these girls and having that moment of understanding what they're going through. So when they're feeding that information and I'm asking them, it's like legit, like pulling this information

out so people can actually see what happened that night. So I'm living that moment with them. Yeah. And you're kind of like the den mother. Yeah. When I was doing my shows on OWN with couples, it was really interesting. The next day we would finish the day, but they would have their homework assignments or they would have their things they were doing that night, which may or may not even be filmed. You know, obviously they were having really explicit sexual contact. OWN wasn't going to film that, but it was really fascinating the next day, the debrief, right? Like, well, I got in a huge fight. Guess what? You know, and then you use that information the next day, but I can't imagine getting it like live your face. My whole face is like, what?

I think that's the only shot that in the camera. I was no, I'm just like, and then I'll be like, you're looking down, listening to the information. I'm like, did she say that correctly? But yeah, it's it's a live feed of a live reaction to these girls and it's just living in that moment with them and they're they were very vulnerable with it too so it that way too i have to say i had a chance to really get to know all of them and they were just they since really had a great time and i think um they made bonds like they're still connected even after the show they're still talking to each other around the world and that says a lot about the show yeah it's a really bonding it must be really bonding to go through something like that and to be thrown so far out of your

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So what would you say that you, I mean, you've alluded to some of it and some of the surprises, but what would you say that you've kind of some aha moments or some things that you learned doing the show about love, about yourself, about relationships? I mean, I did go home and try the gazing with my husband for two minutes. And he's looking at me like, well, what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm trying to experiment on you. Did you not warn him first? No, I just went up to him in the kitchen. I go, look into my eyes. And he's like, what are you doing right now? But I did, you know, being in a relationship for 20 years,

it's important to keep that contact connection. And I make sure that we take time together and having that, you know, we have our lives together. He has his life. I have my life. we come together as a family in the middle and that keeps us, you know, we have our independence and that's really important, but also like making sure we are physically holding each other every week, making sure that we are spending that bonding time together. Uh, and that keeps our relationship going. And I still think we're in our honeymoon phases, a phase right now, but those experiment also pushed me to try more, right? You know, I am going to hold him. I'm going to touch his back more often rather than him saying on the other side of the kitchen,

I'm going to go over to him while I'm cooking. These are the things that are important. And I realized it's not just us talking about our kids. It's talking about ourselves and how are you doing and how's your day going? You forget that stuff, right? When you're hustling with your kids. Yeah. And so I think coming out of it, I became even more visible to him. I think that's the right word, right? It's me and you and us together as a couple. So I did learn a lot from the show yeah that's great yeah it's interesting because once you get into those the kids come and you're in your busy busy life there's a statistic i quote often but it still blows my mind that most couples don't talk more than 15 minutes a week about wow other than the logistics of their lives

they'll talk about the kids and the carpools and the gates and the roof and the in-laws and the illnesses and all the logistics of their lives, but they talk 15 minutes or less about what's important to them, about where their heart is, about how they're feeling, about what they're excited about, about what they're scared about, about what they're dreaming about. And, you know, what you are doing is really also cultivating, I guess, and what you're alluding to is this, you know, because you were watching all these different ways of connecting and communicating beyond those conversations. Right. So that's what you're referring to as a therapist, that physical touch and that physical connection. You got to keep that.

That's what separates you from roommates is when you keep that physical connection strong. But for women, we don't necessarily feel inspired as much to have that physical connection when we're stressed and tired unless we feel a strong emotional connection. And so that's what you're talking about, the touch, the awareness of you. I always say to couples, don't forget to try to delight each other and to be delightful. There's something about, like in the beginning of relationship, you see yourself through the mirror of your partner's eyes and you feel so delightful and you are so delighted by them. And that so easily gets buried under everything. And there all of these different ways, like you're describing of just being conscious and not

your face in your phone and noticing that he's across the kitchen and sidling over there and touching him and connecting with him and that kind of thing. So I love that. I love that it's, it inspired you to, to do even more of that. And I'm, you know, I check him out still after all these years. Right. So that's good. It's good. My husband still makes my uterus contract. have your kids now because they're teenagers and right have they seen the show they saw the first episode they haven't seen the rest of the show because it's so late in the day because they have to study but we do talk about it and they asked me about my experience and my older daughter i think she's starting to kind of like boys now and uh you know i'm trying to have those conversations

with her and she's like mom i don't have a boyfriend i don't have a boyfriend i'm like just let me know and it's it's an interesting time to see how she how she feels and I still don't fully know how to talk to her about it I'm still trying to figure that out because she went to an all-girls school and now she's going to a co-ed school and so learning from that it's an interesting time yeah so if she has questions I'm here to ask but I'm also a little bit shy with it with talking to them I thought I've been that parent where I'll be like okay let's talk about sex you haven't oh you gotta get it we need to have a little session right here because that's super important I'm like I don't know why I'm shy talking to them about it yeah but I I mean

I get the information out but I wish I was more open I guess because my parents were never never talked to me about it so like how do you approach the situation my sister's really good at it and I'm like, so, you know, how, how's it going? Or rather than just going in and go, let's, let's, let's talk, you know, have you had sex talk with them about, I have, but they keep not the younger one yet. I mean, we've talked about it, but we talked in a very medical way, not in a love way. And with my older one, I'm starting to have those conversation about the love way and, you know, making sure she's on the right path and making sure she's doing it the right way.

So I'm being treated with, you know, respect and all of that. And she just kind of shies away. She's like, mom, I know, I know. I'm like, I really just want to sit with you and just talk about it. Right. So, uh, yeah, you don't let them bob you off. Cause they will try to start talking to, I mean, that's one of the advantages to start talking to them when they're younger, not necessarily the nitty gritty and the explicit

stuff about like intimacy and imparting your family values. because everybody has different ones for, you know, for us, it was when you are in love with someone and you both understand how to protect yourselves and you both are giving consent and you only want to be with each other, then XYZ, you kind of repeatedly set the context because by the time they're teenagers, you know, they do roll their eyes and you can still make them listen, but it's just harder. It's harder. Yeah. And if you're anxious about it, like rather than pretend because they smell that a mile away and we'll roll more is just acknowledge that you're anxious. Just say, you know what? I, this is a little awkward for me because my parents didn't

talk about it, but I had the disadvantage of that. I want you to have the benefit of having these conversations. So even though I'm a little anxious and this is awkward, we're going to talk about it. I'll do that tonight. I'm going to just sit down and have a coffee with her and say, let's talk. And the other thing is they, they, they do see my husband and I being very lovable too. Right. And I want them to know that's, that's allowed. And that's, you know, my parents never used to really do that. So they weren't being affectionate. Yeah. Yeah. So, and I, they see that and we, we, we are very affectionate in front of them and, and they're comfortable with that, which is great in our culture. Again, it's a taboo. You don't do that, but my girls get to

see that. So it's nice that way. Yeah. I think that's so important because you are really their model for what a loving relationship looks like and feels like. And I can't tell you how many people sit. I mean, that's one of the first questions I ask people when they come to me for sex or love therapy is what was your sense spoken or unspoken of your parents' romantic and sexual relationship? And they'll be like, oh, we never, they never talked about it. They never touched each other. They never looked at each other. I'm not even sure they had sex more than enough of us, you know or they'll say actually you know it was a really loving relationship or they fought all the time or you know parents think we think we can just tell our kids but they don't listen to

what we say they watch what we do you know watch what we do the power yeah the power of seeing it yeah so hopefully that resonates with them for sure yeah but i'll do it i'll have that conversation i'll send you my my book talking your kids about sex a guy have all the so the show is called love and translation and you've already filmed it even though it hasn't all aired yet and so without giving any spoiler alerts you're saying that there was some interesting successes that happened you know it's it's an interesting way to look at things i mean if you're in a room with a bunch of people for a long period of time do you adjust to their ways That's the other question I had doing this experiment is that you're put in

this situation. Will you do it? It takes a while for some of them. There's some of them are feeling, I just want to get out of this situation. This is too tough for me. And there's others who was like, let's just get right into it. Let's see how this works. And I find that with the success, the, these, the women and the men do go for it. They actually do the full experiment and say, let's see if this really does. they really go for it and it really did work. So I'm really excited for everyone to see what

happens at the end because yeah, it's just nice to know that, yeah, even if you can't speak the same language, you're able to make those powerful connections. At what point did the guys, I mean, they must've realized pretty quickly, the women knew what was going down because you met before with a translator, but then the guys come in, these three American dudes, I mean, guys, and they walk into this room of gorgeous women and then they realize no one speaks English. And then did they realize immediately that this was a different deal

than they thought they were signing up for? They were confused for the longest time in the back of the, and I think they talked to every girl to find out what was going on. And when they finally did, and it was funny because one of the guys starts talking with his hand and slowing down his words. And I'm like, it's still English.

You're still saying the same words. You don't need. You're going to be brought louder. why do we do this i know uh and then they started doing charades and all of it and then they realized in that moment okay this is this is the experiment this is what's going to happen and they went for it it took a little bit of time with some of them but then they finally realized they can and they found their own ways of making communications happen with certain women and it's it's it's nice to see that they figured it out what works for them yeah oh that's interesting

So they all had sort of a different strategy. I'm always so fascinated with these dating shows, how, you know, the switches happen where the, and you said the women, you know, that there was this competition at certain points between the women or those, you know, cause there were a lot more women than men. And I think it's so interesting, even on the bachelor on all of these shows that when there's one guy or in this case, three guys and a lot more women, and it's the same thing in reverse, I've noticed, but more so for women. It's like something in their DNA takes over. And that person, once there is a demand, I guess it's the philosophy or the psychology of supply

and demand. I don't know. Once more than one woman or multiple women want the same guy, even if she didn't even really notice the guy at first or out on the street wouldn't necessarily go for that guy. Now that these other women are wanting him, he gets a lot more attractive. Yeah. Yeah. That perspective as well. And what's so interesting about this show, and you'll see it in the first episode. So the guys get to ask the girl out to on their first day, whoever they want to. One of the girls says no. So the girls have power in this show. They can say if they want to go on this date with one of the guys or not. And one of them shuts the guy down and he's like whoa I didn't know they had the power to do that and so even in this show

they changed it up so the women do have the power they can leave the house anytime they want yeah they can say I don't want to be with this guy I prefer this guy so they instead of the guys telling them what they have to do like we with the other shows there's an opportunity for these girls to say I'm not interested I'm not and so I'm not into it and there was one girl in the first episode who does that and i think he was a little bit crushed and he had to adjust oh that would be hard especially on the first the first thing i know i know i get to know him but she's like no i'm not interested and she's interested in another guy she kind of knew who the person she wanted to be uh doing this experiment with yeah well i won't you can't tell me whether she

kept especially in the younger set they go purely on physical initial impression and very Very often, this is what I always say to them, someone will often get a lot cuter when they have a great personality or a great sense of humor, which I guess is hard to impart with a language barrier. But you can still tell when someone has a good personality, even if you can't understand what they're saying. Did they eventually get translators so they can at least see if they're aligned in their life vision and their values and stuff like that? At what point did they get translators? So once, once they get to the, the, the few women that they're very interested in there and the women are interested in them, I will give them the translator so they can actually communicate and see this is what they expect.

And there is one couple, I can't say which one, but the translator made a difference. Yeah. So. And you can't say for good or for bad, the difference. Yeah, I can. It makes a difference. So that was, I was surprised actually. I thought at this point, if I gave you the translator, it'll still be the same reaction,

but no. So what if you got really into someone and you had all this physical attraction and you could see their sweet heart through their eyes and you love the way they smell. And then it turns out that like, they want you, you know, you have this dream of having an amazing career and they only want to be with someone who's going to be a stay at home mom, or your religion is super important to you and they don't believe in God or whatever, you know, like there could be these deal breakers or just that they're kind of an asshole when they talk. Maybe. They say, I don't know, but I could see that there would be once language came in that

there would be a whole new layer of discovery. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So, yeah, it's interesting to see how, oh, I can't say, but yeah, I think you're bang on in terms of like, yeah, what are your beliefs? You can't really do that without the use of language, right? How do you say that? But yeah, it does play into effect for sure. So do you know if you're going to do another season yet? I hope so. You know, I would love to do another season where it's the other way around. How great

would it be to see 12 guys from around the world and how they adjust to figuring it out? Maybe we have four girls instead of three girls. I don't know, but I think this experiment really does show. And I want people to watch this show and think about the way they communicate, even if it's not for a partner, but how do you communicate in the outside world with your colleagues and, and how do you show your affection and how do you communicate and your tone and all that? I think there's a lot of learning curves to this show for people. And I want people to be able to do that and say, you know what, maybe I should try a little bit of this. Maybe my tone is a little bit too harsh or maybe, you know, things like that. I want people

come out of the show. Yeah, I could see that. And also the reverse that like we depend so much on language. What are we unintentionally communicating in the nonverbal realm as well? Yeah. And then you could find love anywhere. Like that's really ultimately what this is about. You don't have to be in North America to find that person. You can travel to anywhere in the world and make that connection potentially. And people are scared of doing that because they're like, I can't speak the language, but you don't really need to. It's just finding that that connection and that can happen. And were they all aware going into the show that they were going to be with people from different cultures?

Or were they just saying, I'm open to all cultures and countries? The girls knew that the men were from the U.S. and the guys knew the women were from around the world. But they didn't know the angle to it. Yeah. Lots of people that I talked to. I mean, Lord, you look at the dating apps and they're like, no, but yes. a 15 mile radius on my, you know, like I'm not going to travel to an app more than 10 minutes to someone, you know, I can imagine we're an international love affair that you'd need to kind of know what you were willing to sign up for going into that.

Yeah. So they knew, they knew that too. They would have to adjust if something did were to happen at the end of the show that they were going to have to figure out how to keep that connection happening. And so I think they were all up for it. Yeah. That's really cool. Well, I hope you get another season. I can't wait to watch the rest of the show and see what happens. I have no doubt, even if this show doesn't go another season, which it probably will, you will keep humping and producing and creating beautiful things.

Same to you. Thanks for having this chat with me. It just makes you think a lot more about love. And I do think love exists. I think it's universal. So I think it's a beautiful thing. And it goes beyond language. It really does. I mean, language is very helpful, but it is much more. So I think that's a beautiful thing. Love and Translation. It premiered on Sunday, January 21st, but it is now on TLC and streaming on Max and new episodes every Sunday. Thank you so much, Sandita, for joining us. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

I went to the doctor Said I'm crazy for your love Wrote me a prescription But there is no cure for a crush All I wanna do, I wanna do Is take you home with me I wanna make a move, I wanna make a move But I'm too shy

I can't fall asleep without your arms around me I guess I'm falling in love Baby, you're my rockstar Smashing all my guitars One day I will charge you For breaking my heart You're just like my sport car Driving fast, you go far

When I'm sitting by you, we get high This song is about you and my love