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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Great Enemy of Love, Good Relationships, Good Friendships

The great enemy of love, good relationships, good friendships is self righteousness. If somebody thinks that they're easy to live with, they're going to be pretty hard and don't have much of an understanding of themselves. The essence of romantic longing is this belief that someone out there - maybe you saw them at the airport checkin line, maybe you crossed them in the super market,. Maybe you saw them when you were swiping left or right on the ap but that somewhere out there there is this extraordinary peacher called the right person. That's a very important starting point for being good at love....

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