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712: Thoughtful meandering with William Deresiewicz

Humanize Me

CHAPTER

Face Reality and Try to Think

I counsel a lot of people and couples and sometimes you'll be talking to a couple and you'll realize that they know the emotional landscape of each other's lives very well. And so, you know, when somebody says, like, I really want to understand my partner or Ireally want to understand this other person,. The psychopath wants to understand a person for one reason. And the lover wants to understand it for a different reason. As I was reading through your entries,you know, the, the different essays I realized like, this is a person who's trying to understand the world.

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