Anders Hansen talks regarding why he lives alone.
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Anders Hansen is currently appearing in the program “Din Personlighet” on SVT, in which he summarized twenty years of personality research.
In an interview with DN says the psychiatrist and author regarding the choice to live alone. He says that he is not a herd animal and that he has a great need not to depend on anyone else. However, he doesn’t think that’s the basis of his lifestyle, but rather that he just doesn’t fall in love very often.
Close and strong friendships surround him instead of partners and children. Several of his friends have children that he has seen grow up, he tells DN.
– I am with my friends’ children sometimes. They are great. But following a couple of hours with some who are in the lower-middle school age, I have to have smelling salts and just come down.
“Burning in the knots”
Anders Hansen believes that he is going once morest the strongest driving force of evolution when he chooses not to have children.
– When my genes build something that is so individualistic and restless, and that has as little social need as I do, well then they saw off the branch they are sitting on. If everyone were to be, sapiens would perish, he tells DN.
Hansen has a close relationship with his mother, whom he calls every day. If she doesn’t answer, he gets stress. With thoughts of disaster, he can jump into a taxi to his childhood home.
He is afraid that the anxiety he feels will get even worse as a parent, writes DN.
Although he notes that feelings can change over time, he does not want children now.
– I don’t know how I will feel in five years. But it’s burning in the knots if it’s ever going to come off, says Anders Hansen to DN.
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