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John Wineland: Intimacy, Sex And What It Means To Heal Our Traumas | EP 429

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Your Partner Is a Caregiver

The Harvard Hendrix talks about how we choose people. Like our souls actually choose people to help us work this shit out with. It's pretty much common. You're recapitulating your trauma as an opportunity to resurface it because you inherently want to heal. But your partner is a beautiful vehicle for that because they occupy the caregiver. Once they become family, I'm talking after a couple of years, you move in together, you get married or you have a child. Now they're in your triune brain as family. And so their capacity to repair, to do all these things we're talking about here, it creates deep, deep healing.

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