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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Are You Marrying the Wrong Person?

We are unconsciously looking for what feels familiar from our childhood. We marry the wrong people because we don't associate being loved with feeling happy, which flies in the face of all the ideas we have,. It's amidstit'st this huge chasm between what we believe and how we actually function. And so these things dig deep into our personalities. But i think there is a capacity, we all have a capacity to evolve ar. You'll still feel hurt, but maybe you can respond to that hurt in a slightly more adult way. I don't think we can be radically re wired, but we can come to see that many of the ways in which we respond in love were formed in...

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