Jordan Peterson: Why I Married My Wife

Professor of psychology Dr. Jordan B Peterson talks about why he married his wife and how they met.

Full Length Q&A: June 1 2017 Patreon Q & A (#2 in a monthly series)

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.
He earned a degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. In 1997, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor.

Dr. Jordan B Peterson has been a dishwasher, gas jockey, bartender, short-order cook, beekeeper, oil derrick bit re-tipper, plywood mill labourer and railway line worker. He’s taught mythology to lawyers, doctors and businessmen, consulted for the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Sustainable Development, helped his clinical clients manage depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia, served as an advisor to senior partners of major Canadian law firms, identified thousands of promising entrepreneurs on six different continents, and lectured extensively in North America and Europe.

He has flown a hammer-head roll in a carbon-fiber stunt plane, piloted a mahogany racing sailboat around Alcatraz Island, explored an Arizona meteorite crater with a group of astronauts, built a Native American Long-House on the upper floor of his Toronto home, and been inducted into the coastal Pacific Kwakwaka’wakw tribe.

With his students and colleagues, Dr. Peterson has published more than a hundred scientific papers, transforming the modern understanding of personality, and revolutionized the psychology of religion with his now-classic book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. As a Harvard professor, he was nominated for the prestigious Levinson Teaching Prize, and is regarded by his current University of Toronto students as one of three truly life-changing teachers.

[TurtleMarathon]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile so big

[mikhaila]

I love how the thumbnail isn’t of my dad and my mom 😂😂

[robskalas]

I’ve never seen him so animated and happy.. he must really love his wife.

[simonsharp]

A lot of people criticize him for being miserable. I think this shows he's mostly being serious because what he's discussing is often challenging issues. When he talks about his wife and family he looks a damn sight happier than many people that age who are married.

[windsongshf]

I love how just thinking of his wife and these memories make him smile so much! Xo

[boogeyratt]

I love this. When you ask a man why he married his wife and his response is a smile and a giggle... that's absolutely true love.

[goodgirl]

It's so clear how proud he is of his wife and how much he loves her. Whenever he brings her up he always talks her up and gets very smiley and excited. I hope I can find a love like that some day.

[kellyla]

He lights up when he talks about his wife!!! I wish this was everyone’s experience. So lovely 🥰

[linjubar]

Your joy when you speak of your wife is infectious. Really cute.

[kickchick]

The first few seconds of his reaction, I thought he was almost offended by the question - but then he erupted into happiness on a level we've not seen on any of his other videos.  I think your wife is a very lucky woman Dr Peterson, and vice versa.  Thanks for restoring my faith in marriage.

[richspizzaparty]

Wonder how many people recall stories about their spouse with joy like this?

[MONICAANICA]

To see a man smiling with such candor when telling stories with his wife is priceless. She's a lucky lady

[charlesmartel]

Marrying your childhood crush. How perfect is that!

[mallubhaiMBBS]

After years of marriage, he is still excited, and love her like the day he met her, look how much he is in love, he didn't want to hide it which is an inspiration to the rest of us. His love is like the Bryan Adams song

It still feels like our first night together
Feels like the first kiss
It's getting better baby
No one can better this
Still holding on
You're still the one
First time our eyes met
Same feeling I get
Only feels much stronger
I want to love you longer
Do you still turn the fire on?

[rjg]

The joy in his face when bringing up memories of her speaks for itself.

[NitaKerns]

I freaking LOVE the way he talks about his wife and how in love with her he is. So sweet. Makes me like the dude even more! A brilliant mind with a loving heart.

[jayblessergienko]

It doesn't get a lot more wholesome than that. Dr. Peterson's story about his relationship with his wife reminds me of my relationship with mine. It brings me joy to know that a man that I respect who has been through such hardship has such good things to fall back on when times are tough.

[ThePainterr]

Met my wife when I was 8 years married for 27 years already and we have known each other for 41 years story

[ChristophRehage]

Five minutes of bliss.

- she used to tease him about his glasses, but 20 years later it turned out she was only jealous of them
- she was popular with the boys
- she used to have a paper route, but then Peterson took over and "quadrupled the damn thing, which I thought was pretty funny"
- when she was young, Peterson's wife was a feminist who didn't want to take on her future husband's last name BUT THEN, many years later Peterson said to her: "Here I am, but, you know, if we're gonna get married you're gonna take my name, and that's the end of that argument."

Apparently, Jordan Peterson got the last laugh and became the dominant lobster in his relationship.

[Slager]

When you're such a fanboy that you adore his love stories...