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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Relationships and Anger

What people say to us is often so much at variance with what they mean. One of the things that makes relationships so scary is we need to be weak in front of other people. And most of us are just experts at being pretty strong. What we don't know how to do is to make ourselves safely vulnerable. We tend to get very twitchy, you know, preternaturally aggressive,. et cetera, when we're asked to....

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