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Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Work of Love

i think that one of the most, one of the kindest things that we can do with our lover is to see them as childrend not not to infantalize them. We're incredibly generous in the way we interpret their behaviour. When an adult meets an adult and they say, you know, i've not had a good day,. I'm rather than go behind the facade of this sily, i'm du sand al mots, actually, not about me. That's about what's going on inside them. Rode rigt, right, exactly. We don't do that. We take it all completely personally. No one cann intuitively understand another beyond a quite limited...

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