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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 Cost of Good Parenting

I mean, there's this wonderful line from the course of love, am about this to parents. The tired child inside each them is furious at how long it has been neglected. In a way, in a way, ems it's so funny, my wife, i can be indiscreet on air,. My wife's used to say to me, in the early days of our marriage, she sometimes would say to me things like, you know, my father would never have said somethingLike that. And then i had to point out that there was really a she wasn't comparing like with like that. She was comparing a miss man, her father, as a fatherbut not as a...

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