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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Love Isn't Nice, Is It?

We don't begin to understand our own pathway to love. And it involves understanding the evolution of love in somebody's personality. Our assumption of how were going to get and reach our expectations are fatally floored. We don't think we can have to do any work in order to get thereand that's wrong. There are legitimate reasons to leave a relationship. But if when you're really being honest, if you ask yourself, why am i in pain? then what youre doing is encountering the pain of life with another person, but not necessarily because of another person....

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