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Come Back To Love September 17, 2026 What Relationship Reveals · Come Back to Love:

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Come Back to Love with your host, Robin Vogel.
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  Speaker 1: Each week at this same time, Come Back to Love
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  Speaker 1: covers an endless array of topics related to relationships, love,
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  Speaker 1: and intimacy, along with all the reasons you may be
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  Speaker 1: keeping love at a distance. Can a shattered heart be
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  Speaker 1: your doorway to your greatest love story? Robin will give
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  Speaker 1: you practical tools that can be used to heal the
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  Speaker 1: past and help you to safely love again. And now,
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  Speaker 1: today's Come Back to Love.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Come Back to Love. I'm Robin Vogel and
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  Speaker 2: this is KMET Radio. We are live on Thursdays, 1.30pm Pacific, 4.30pm Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm here today with a solo show. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: done a solo show in a while. I had lots
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  Speaker 2: of amazing guests the last couple of months. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy to be here solo speaking with you, my listeners,
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  Speaker 2: about a very important topic this week. Of course, it
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  Speaker 2: has to do with love. That's why we're here. I
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  Speaker 2: want to also shout out to a dear friend whose
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  Speaker 2: name is Lisa Campion. You can find her online or
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  Speaker 2: any social media platform. She is an incredible professional psychic,
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  Speaker 2: intuitive healer, and all around amazing woman and dear friend.
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  Speaker 2: And she wrote about this topic this week, a version
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  Speaker 2: of this topic we're going to talk about today that
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  Speaker 2: has to do with some underlying underneath longings that show
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  Speaker 2: up in our desire for relationship. And her words just
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  Speaker 2: resonated so deeply with my own thinking, my own teaching,
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  Speaker 2: my own musings. And I thought I would bring this
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  Speaker 2: topic to you today because I do really feel that
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  Speaker 2: there's something underneath a lot of our longing for relationship
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  Speaker 2: that we don't talk about. We don't say it out loud.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to talk about it today. So strap
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  Speaker 2: in or put your headset on, set head on and
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  Speaker 2: go for a walk, whatever it is that you're doing
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  Speaker 2: while you're listening in, whether you're live on the radio
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, or you're listening via a podcast. I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: you're here. So here's the thing. We say we want
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  Speaker 2: a partner, right? We want a partner, we want to
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  Speaker 2: be in relationship, we want intimacy, we want someone who
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  Speaker 2: loves us. Someone who's emotionally available, someone who communicates really well,
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  Speaker 2: like rockstar communication. We say we want someone who's committed,
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  Speaker 2: someone who chooses us. All of that is true, right?
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes underneath that desire, there's another longing. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to give you a moment to take a breath
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  Speaker 2: and maybe just become aware of some other underlying longings
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  Speaker 2: that you have right now. So sometimes there's another longing
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  Speaker 2: that's underneath. Maybe, just maybe this person, this potential partner
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  Speaker 2: or this current partner will finally give me what I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get. Some version of that thought and that thinking.
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  Speaker 2: What are those things? Presence, attunement, safety, a feeling of
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  Speaker 2: being seen, that feeling of being special. that feeling of
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  Speaker 2: being chosen, listened to. How about a parent who stays?
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  Speaker 2: Or that the person doesn't leave? That the person or
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  Speaker 2: potential partner can finally say, you're enough, you're worth loving,
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  Speaker 2: you're worth staying for. And if you've ever found yourself
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  Speaker 2: desperately wanting someone to choose you, or feeling devastated when
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  Speaker 2: somebody pulls away or becoming preoccupied with whether someone really
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  Speaker 2: loves you, maybe you're doing that. I don't want you
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  Speaker 2: to hear that as something wrong, because that there is
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  Speaker 2: nothing wrong with those thoughts. Our thoughts, those thoughts and
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  Speaker 2: our thoughts are just normal being human. It's not a
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  Speaker 2: character flaw. It's actually what is unhealed, what unhealed places do.
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  Speaker 2: That's a better way of saying it. It's what unhealed
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  Speaker 2: places do that create these thoughts. They reach these unhealed
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  Speaker 2: places for the nearest warm body and ask it to
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  Speaker 2: finish the job. My mom didn't stay in my case.
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  Speaker 2: So there's an underlying feeling and really intense craving that
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  Speaker 2: the person that I partner with stays. So I know
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of a provocative thing to say, and I
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  Speaker 2: shared a little bit of my own story there. I'm
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  Speaker 2: curious what yours, your story is. Always feel free to
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  Speaker 2: reach out to me at Robin with a Y at ComeBackToLove.com.
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  Speaker 2: Share your thoughts, share your musings, share your questions, share
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  Speaker 2: your responses to my questions. I love to hear from
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  Speaker 2: my listeners. So again, I know that's a provocative thing
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  Speaker 2: to say, but I've been doing this work for decades
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  Speaker 2: and I've watched this play out over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over again. We meet someone, we fall in love, or
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  Speaker 2: we fall in lust, or we fall in infatuation. And
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  Speaker 2: without even realizing it, we hand them a job description
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  Speaker 2: they never agreed to. Make me feel safe. Make me
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  Speaker 2: feel lovable. Make sure I never, ever feel abandoned. Prove
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  Speaker 2: to me that I'm enough. Never neglect any of my needs.
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  Speaker 2: Don't ever hurt me. And then we're surprised when the
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  Speaker 2: relationship can't carry the weight of all of that. How
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  Speaker 2: could it possibly? But here's the thing I've come to understand.
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  Speaker 2: Relationship was never designed, first of all, to be given
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  Speaker 2: a job description to carry out. It was never designed
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  Speaker 2: to be comfortable. Relationship is designed to be revealing. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of those paradigm shifts that nobody likes to hear,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm going to say it. And I always say it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say it again. Relationship was never designed
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  Speaker 2: to be comfortable. Relationship was designed, spiritually speaking, to be revealing.
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  Speaker 2: And if we can shift our perspective just a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: that can change the entire way we experience love. Because
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  Speaker 2: what if the person you're with isn't simply there to
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  Speaker 2: make you happy? What if they're also there to show
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  Speaker 2: you where you still have work to do? What if
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  Speaker 2: intimacy is actually one of the fastest ways we can
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  Speaker 2: see our own patterns? Not because our partner is doing
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  Speaker 2: something wrong, but because they matter enough to us to
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  Speaker 2: activate the places we can't see when we're alone. That's
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  Speaker 2: really big. I'm gonna I'm gonna just like summarize highlight
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  Speaker 2: that again one more time. So just the last piece.
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  Speaker 2: What if intimacy is actually one of the fastest ways
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  Speaker 2: we can see our own patterns? Because truthfully, it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's been my experience. Not because our partner is doing
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  Speaker 2: something wrong. That's a big statement, because most people think
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  Speaker 2: their partners are doing something wrong. But because they matter
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  Speaker 2: enough to us to activate the places we can't see
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  Speaker 2: when we're alone. So that's what I want to explore today.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to talk about what conscious love actually
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  Speaker 2: looks like when two imperfect human beings are trying to
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  Speaker 2: love each other without handing over the job description and
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  Speaker 2: then being totally disappointed that the person can't actually be
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  Speaker 2: successful with the job description that was handed to them.
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  Speaker 2: Relationship is a great excavator, an excavator of the parts
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  Speaker 2: of ourselves that haven't been healed yet. and that want
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  Speaker 2: to be healed. That's the key. I've spent much of
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  Speaker 2: my professional life sitting with people around love and intimacy,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, and one of the things I've noticed
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  Speaker 2: is that we can do an enormous amount of healing
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  Speaker 2: when we're alone, we can, we can meditate, we can journal,
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  Speaker 2: we can go to therapy, we can go on retreats,
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  Speaker 2: we can read all the books, we can understand our
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  Speaker 2: childhood and We can know our attachment style. We can
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  Speaker 2: understand our parts. We can have tremendous insight. And we have.
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  Speaker 2: And then we fall in love. And suddenly, all bets
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  Speaker 2: are off. Have you experienced this?
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 2: Because now somebody else is involved. Somebody who doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: do things the way we would do them ourselves. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't always understand us. Not always. Somebody who occasionally
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  Speaker 2: doesn't text back. Somebody who has needs that are different
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  Speaker 2: from ours. Somebody who says something that lands right on
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  Speaker 2: an old wound. Ouch. And suddenly we're thinking, oh, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: apparently I'm not as healed as I thought I was
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  Speaker 2: because I'm triggered. I'm activated. I'm upset. I'm making them wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this was it. And I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: I actually think that's wonderful. Because relationship becomes a kind
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  Speaker 2: of spiritual practice. It shows us, it reveals, it brings
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  Speaker 2: things to the surface that might otherwise remain hidden. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to wonder if abandonment is an issue when
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  Speaker 2: somebody you love pulls away and your entire body says
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  Speaker 2: they're leaving and you're shaking and filled with anxiety and upset.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to wonder if being chosen is an
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  Speaker 2: issue when your partner seems distracted and something inside you says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not important. They don't think I'm important. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to wonder. if receiving is difficult. When somebody offers
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  Speaker 2: you something beautiful and your first response is, oh, you
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have, or it's too much, or you immediately go
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  Speaker 2: into like, what can I do for you? There it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's the pattern. There's the piece that wants your attention.
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  Speaker 2: There's the part that's ready to be healed. So I
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  Speaker 2: want to make an important distinction here. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: every difficult relationship is a gift. I'm not. Because some
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  Speaker 2: relationships were just not meant to be not meant to
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  Speaker 2: continue or a meant to were meant to be for
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  Speaker 2: a certain period of time, and then meant to close.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that decision is easy either. So
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  Speaker 2: don't hear me. That's a whole other episode. So don't
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  Speaker 2: hear me say that. Again, that's a whole other episode.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not saying you should stay in something unhealthy,
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  Speaker 2: because well, it's triggering my childhood wounds. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I need to deal with my childhood wounds. There is
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  Speaker 2: a distinction here. It's not that easy to make. This
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  Speaker 2: is a time when most people do reach out for support.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly was a time when I reached out for
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  Speaker 2: support 20 years ago when I couldn't figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: When I was married, I ended up divorcing, but I
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  Speaker 2: definitely needed lots of support to figure out what to
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  Speaker 2: do and what was in alignment for me. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: absolutely not saying that we do need discernment, we need boundaries,
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  Speaker 2: we need safety. But in a relationship, where there is
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  Speaker 2: fundamental care and respect and goodwill, honesty, kindness, support, love,
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  Speaker 2: the difficult moments can become extraordinary opportunities. Instead of, why
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  Speaker 2: is my partner doing this to me? We can begin asking,
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  Speaker 2: what is this bringing up in me? That's a very
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  Speaker 2: different question. And it doesn't mean we let our partners
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  Speaker 2: off the hook. it means we become willing to look
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  Speaker 2: at a bigger picture. And I want to add like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm using the word partner here. But this also applies
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  Speaker 2: to like someone you're dating, because things can come up
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  Speaker 2: even in a dating relationship where you're considering a potential partner,
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  Speaker 2: the gifts can show up there, you know, and the
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  Speaker 2: discernment is needed there, certainly. So let's go back to
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  Speaker 2: the quiet part that isn't spoken. Maybe this person will
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  Speaker 2: finally give me what I didn't get. I want to
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  Speaker 2: hand over this job description, please. I want them to
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  Speaker 2: fill it. So I know, I know this one personally,
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  Speaker 2: as you might know, those of you that have been
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  Speaker 2: listening for the last several months to my radio show,
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  Speaker 2: I share a lot of my own personal journey. I've
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  Speaker 2: had my own experience and heartache and heartbreak with abandonment,
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  Speaker 2: with feeling unlovable, with learning things. how to receive. I
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  Speaker 2: certainly wasn't able to receive for such a long time
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  Speaker 2: in my life with learning not to abandon myself in
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  Speaker 2: order to be loved. And one of the most profound
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  Speaker 2: things I've had to learn is nobody can go back
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  Speaker 2: and give me the childhood I didn't have. Nobody can
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  Speaker 2: become the person who didn't leave. Nobody can retroactively change
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  Speaker 2: my history. But somebody can meet me right now. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: can be present with me right now. Somebody can listen.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody can repair. Somebody can say, I see you. I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't agree, perhaps with you, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: understand you. We had a rupture. Let's come back. Let's repair.
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  Speaker 2: And this is so deeply healing. Oh my goodness. My experience...
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  Speaker 2: is that this is so deeply healing. It's different from
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  Speaker 2: asking another person to fix us, to fix our wound.
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  Speaker 2: And this distinction is so important and can be hard
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  Speaker 2: to access. There's a difference between sharing your inner world
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  Speaker 2: and asking your partner to manage your inner world. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say that again. There's a difference between sharing
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  Speaker 2: your inner world with a beloved and asking that beloved
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  Speaker 2: to manage it for you. Sharing says something got activated
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  Speaker 2: in me and I want to tell you about it.
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  Speaker 2: Sharing says I'm feeling afraid and these are the things
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling afraid about. Sharing is when you didn't call,
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  Speaker 2: I noticed how quickly I went into the story that
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  Speaker 2: you don't care about me anymore. You might say, I
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  Speaker 2: know that's not necessarily the whole truth, but that's what
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  Speaker 2: happened inside me. That my friends is vulnerability. That's intimacy.
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  Speaker 2: Managing when you ask someone to manage your inner world,
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  Speaker 2: it can sound like this. You need to stop doing
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  Speaker 2: that because it makes me anxious. You need to reassure
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  Speaker 2: me until I feel okay about myself. I shouldn't ever
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  Speaker 2: do anything that triggers me. Can't you change your behavior?
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  Speaker 2: Does that sound familiar? Now, sometimes we absolutely need to
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  Speaker 2: ask for different behavior, but there's a difference between saying,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to communicate with me differently and saying,
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  Speaker 2: You are responsible for making sure I never feel triggered, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's just impossible anyway. And here's something I say
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Your partner isn't responsible for your healing, but
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  Speaker 2: your partner can absolutely become part of the environment in
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  Speaker 2: which healing happens. And that's a beautiful distinction and a really,
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  Speaker 2: really important distinction. So let's talk about projection because this
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  Speaker 2: is one of the most fascinating things that happens in
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  Speaker 2: intimate relationship. Projection is essentially when something from our internal
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  Speaker 2: world gets placed onto what's happening right now. And here's
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  Speaker 2: the tricky part. The present may contain something real. Your
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  Speaker 2: partner really may have disappointed you. They really may have forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: They really may have been insensitive. So we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to use the word projection to invalidate our experience. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: we can ask, is what I'm experiencing entirely about what
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  Speaker 2: just happened now? Or does it have roots in the past?
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  Speaker 2: One of my favorite questions, does the intensity of my
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  Speaker 2: reaction match the size of what just happened? That's a really,
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  Speaker 2: really good question to ask yourself. Because sometimes our reaction
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  Speaker 2: is not right size with what just happened now in
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  Speaker 2: the present, because the roots are in the past. Your
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  Speaker 2: partner says, for example, I'm tired. Can we talk tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: And something inside you goes, they don't love me. They're
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  Speaker 2: pulling away. The relationship's over. I'm going to be alone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to, they're going to leave me. Stop. Take
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  Speaker 2: a breath. It's so hard when that happens. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we just can't control it. It just happens. But what
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  Speaker 2: did happen? They just said they're tired. I always invite
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  Speaker 2: my clients and workshop participants to go back to the data.
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  Speaker 2: What did they say? They said, I'm tired. That's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's all that happened. They said, I'm tired.
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  Speaker 2: Can we talk tomorrow? But then everything else happened inside you, right?
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  Speaker 2: The inner everything else, all the other reactions, they don't
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  Speaker 2: love me, they're pulling away. That's all that happened. All
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  Speaker 2: those things happened inside you. in response to the one
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  Speaker 2: thing that they said, which is I'm tired. It happens
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  Speaker 2: all the time. And that inner experience deserves compassion, not shame.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't do anything wrong because somewhere in your history,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps someone is tired and unavailable. Someone who maybe said
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  Speaker 2: that over and over again, it became connected with, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not important. I'm not lovable. I'm not wanted. They're going away.
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  Speaker 2: They're leaving. That's the excavation work. And this is where
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  Speaker 2: I love the language of parts. As you know, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe don't know if you're listening for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an internal family systems therapist. I've been doing that
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  Speaker 2: work for 26 years. And I love it. I love
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  Speaker 2: the language of parts. Because instead of saying, I'm being ridiculous,
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  Speaker 2: we can say, oh, there's a part of me that
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  Speaker 2: is terrified right now. And rather than handing that part
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  Speaker 2: to our partner and saying, you fix this, You can
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  Speaker 2: turn to yourself. You can turn to this part inside yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You can say, I see you. I know you're scared.
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  Speaker 2: You think tired means they're leaving. You think tired means
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  Speaker 2: they don't love you. I'm here. I'm listening. Hand on
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  Speaker 2: your own heart. And then from that more grounded place,
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  Speaker 2: we can turn towards our partner and say, I hear
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  Speaker 2: you're tired. That's a completely different conversation. That's what I
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  Speaker 2: mean by conscious relationship. Not that you stop having your
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  Speaker 2: stuff and they stop having their stuff, but you become
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  Speaker 2: conscious of your stuff. You notice, you own what's yours,
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  Speaker 2: and you come back in a grounded conscious way. I
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  Speaker 2: hear you're tired and you want to talk tomorrow. I'm
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  Speaker 2: feeling disappointed because I was really looking forward to talking today.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed it triggered some stuff from the past. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm loving myself in this moment. And yes, sure, of course,
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  Speaker 2: we can talk tomorrow. Just as an example. So that
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  Speaker 2: brings me to repair, which is pretty much what I
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  Speaker 2: just gave you an example of repair. Because we have
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  Speaker 2: this fantasy that if we find the right person, the
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  Speaker 2: relationship will be easy. You'll never fight, you'll totally understand
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  Speaker 2: each other, you'll never hurt each other. I think that
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  Speaker 2: sets everyone up for disappointment. Because you're bringing two entirely,
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  Speaker 2: you know, distinct human beings with your own histories into
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  Speaker 2: one relationship, two nervous systems, two families, two sets of beliefs,
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  Speaker 2: two ways of communicating, two ways of protecting ourselves. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to step on each other's toes. The question isn't,
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  Speaker 2: will we rupture? The question is, can we repair? How
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  Speaker 2: will we repair? Can I come back to love after
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  Speaker 2: I've been defensive? Can I say I was wrong? Can
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  Speaker 2: I say, I see now that I was making you
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  Speaker 2: responsible for something that really belongs to me and my history.
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  Speaker 2: Can you say I was triggered and I didn't handle
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  Speaker 2: it well? I'm sorry. Can you say what you did
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  Speaker 2: hurt me? And I would love us to talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Because repair isn't about taking all the blame or blaming
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  Speaker 2: the other. Repair isn't everything was my fault or everything
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  Speaker 2: was your fault. Repair is I care more about our
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  Speaker 2: connection than I care about being right. And sometimes repair
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  Speaker 2: takes time. Sometimes it requires a boundary. Sometimes it requires
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  Speaker 2: a very difficult conversation. But conscious love is not about
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  Speaker 2: never hurting each other. It's not about It's not about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's about having the capacity to find each other again,
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  Speaker 2: to come back to love. Perfection doesn't create intimacy. Truth
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  Speaker 2: and vulnerability create intimacy. So can you allow yourself to
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  Speaker 2: be seen in this capacity in relationship? How do you
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  Speaker 2: attract and keep conscious love? You start by becoming someone
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  Speaker 2: who can participate in conscious love. Because here's something interesting.
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  Speaker 2: You can meet an emotionally available person and not know
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  Speaker 2: what to do with them. You can meet somebody consistent
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  Speaker 2: and find it boring. You can meet someone who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make you chase them and suddenly wonder where's the chemistry.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes what we call chemistry is actually familiarity. Our nervous
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  Speaker 2: systems can become very acquainted with and very accustomed to uncertainty,
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  Speaker 2: to longing, to pursuing, to wondering, do they want me?
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  Speaker 2: And all of that is just a pattern. And again,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong. It's just the question of can you
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  Speaker 2: do it differently? Can you stay with yourself while loving
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  Speaker 2: someone else? Can you allow them to be different from you?
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  Speaker 2: Can you stop trying to control the outcome? Can you
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  Speaker 2: communicate instead of testing them? Can you ask a question
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  Speaker 2: instead of assuming? Can you repair instead of withdraw? Can
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  Speaker 2: you receive? Period. Can you receive? Can you choose love
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  Speaker 2: without abandoning yourself? That's the work. So I'll leave you
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  Speaker 2: with this. You don't need a partner who has no wounds.
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  Speaker 2: You need two people willing to do their own work
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  Speaker 2: in each other's company. You don't need someone who never
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  Speaker 2: triggers you. You need someone with whom you can become
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  Speaker 2: more conscious when you are triggered. You don't need someone
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  Speaker 2: who will never disappoint you. You need someone willing to repair.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't need someone to go back and give
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  Speaker 2: you the childhood you didn't have. You need someone to
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  Speaker 2: become increasingly able. You need to become someone yourself, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: to be completely able to give yourself what you didn't
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  Speaker 2: receive while allowing the other person to love you in
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  Speaker 2: the present. Because perhaps relationship isn't here to rescue you
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  Speaker 2: from humanity. Perhaps it's here again to reveal. to show
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  Speaker 2: you the places where you still abandon yourself, the places
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  Speaker 2: where you still don't trust yet, the places where you're
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  Speaker 2: not quite ready to fully receive. And perhaps these aren't failures,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps they're invitations. So the next time you find yourself
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  Speaker 2: activated by someone you love, before you ask what's wrong
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  Speaker 2: with them, or even what's wrong with me, pause and
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  Speaker 2: take a breath and ask, what is this relationship revealing
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  Speaker 2: to me? Because the question, that question opens a door
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  Speaker 2: and the other one closes it. Sometimes behind that door
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  Speaker 2: is the very part of you that has been waiting,
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  Speaker 2: not for somebody else to save or to be saved,
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  Speaker 2: but for you to finally come home and give it
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  Speaker 2: the attention that you require and desire. I'm Robin Vogel.
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  Speaker 2: This is Come Back to Love Radio. We are on
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  Speaker 2: KMET every Thursday, live 1.30 p.m. Pacific and 4.30 p.m. Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: And as always, the invitation is simple. Come back to love,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what. I'll see you next time. Hi, this
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  Speaker 2: is Robin Vogel, host of Come Back to Love. If
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  Speaker 2: you are ready to heal the past and open your
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: heart to love again, I want to talk with you.
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  Speaker 2: Book a free 30-minute private conversation with me at ComeBackToLove.com.
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  Speaker 2: I'll meet you where you are and give you real
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  Speaker 2: tools you can use right now. Because love isn't just
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  Speaker 2: possible for you. It's waiting for you. Go to ComeBackToLove.com
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  Speaker 1: You've been listening to Come Back to Love with Robin Vogel,
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  Speaker 1: a transformative program that covers an endless array of topics
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  Speaker 1: related to relationships, love, and intimacy, along with all the
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  Speaker 1: reasons you may be keeping love at a distance. Tune
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  Speaker 1: can be used to heal the past and help you
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