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Want vs Desire

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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The Power of Desire

In a marriage, I desire you not to fill up something empty in me, but out of the whole, the fullness to create to create something exactly. And so our ego is driving a lot of what we're doing in our marriages and in our lives. We can desire out of ego. Love me. It's do you love me? I desire you. You desire me. Yes. Well, my husband's makes a distinction between wanting and desiring wanting is like emptiness. I will want for food, a want for validation. I'm trying to fill it up through you in the name of love. That's the kind of desire that feels good to another person I'm known

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