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Jun 2018
15m 58s

Love Means Paying Attention & Accepting ...

Rhoda Sommer on Relationships
About this episode

It's so easy to start taking each other for granted. We develop habits of how we see each other & we make assumptions instead of being curious. When we don't feel seen it's really a big deal & we end up hungry. This definitely happens as the years pass & it's your job to  freshen things up.  It is beyond foolish to imagine you will never be disappointed in your partner because they are so wonderful & you miss being saturated in romantic love. We all have ideas of who we want to be & who we expect our loved ones to be. But that's just it; they are only ideas, mostly built on fantasies & illusions.

 

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