If you allow yourself to connect with those feelings it's even more scary. You respond from the heroic position of I'm fighting for my country and it's crucial but there is also I'm deeply connected to you and I don't want to lose you. If you make it that she wants to be loved while you are expressing the love of the nation you're missing the point for yourself not for her for yourself but your fear if I know something Andrew if I understood you well is that if you allow yourself to connect with that part of you it will increase the fears and it will make you less strong.
In this deeply intimate collaboration with beloved therapist Esther Perel, she dives deep in a couples therapy session with a Ukrainian couple torn apart by the war.
The wife is compelled to leave the country for the sake of her youngest son; the husband and older son are compelled to stay in the warzone for the sake of their country.
Miraculously, even amid unthinkable loss – and maybe especially amid unthinkable loss – love and connection are unrelenting.
Love does impossible things.
(Ukrainian and English language transcripts available at http://wecandohardthingspodcast.com)
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