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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Darkest Truth About Love

One of the greatest sorrows we sometimes have in love is the feeling that our lover doesn't understand parts of us. And so, you know, at many points in life, we're simply not going to be understood. A certain kind of bravery, a certain heroic acceptance of loneliness, seems to be one o key ingredients to being able to form a good relationship. If you expect an interest tat your lovein estundersand course, if you, if you expect that your lover must understand everything about you, er, you will be furious pretty pretty much all the time....

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