Building Relationships | Sustainable, Healthy Relationships

Welcome to the Lab, and, in this episode of The Human Petri Dish, host Andrew Boyton invites you into the lab to explore how sustainable, healthy relationships are built, not found. Meet the R-Model: a practical framework that puts reciprocity, repair, and resilience at the centre of connection.

This is for leaders, partners, teams, parents and anyone curious about how human bonds actually hold up under pressure. We keep the tone playful and the ideas rigorous: expect laughter, insight, and useful experiments you can try in real life.

• What makes a relationship sustainable over months and years.
• An accessible walk-through of the R-Model: reciprocity, repair, resilience.
• Practical steps to practise repair after conflict and to strengthen relational habits.
• Applications for leadership, teams, couples and family life — real examples, not theory alone.

If you want relationships that survive real life, messy meetings, missed expectations, big emotions, this episode gives you a framework and tools to build connection intentionally. It’s less about perfection and more about practice.

Listen now: hit play, subscribe, and tell a friend who cares about connection. If this episode helps you, please like and leave a review — it really helps us reach more curious humans.

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