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Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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The Balance Between Desire and Love

We don't want to play a game in a long term relationship where we kind of are constantly making our partner feel on edge so that there's a sense of danger. Desire sometimes wants a sense of mystery. Desire wants asense of spontaneity of the new, of the unrecognizable. The honeymoon period is going to be much more important to some people than others because some people are wired and engineered to want security. For other people, they're engineered in the opposite way. It's much more important for them to constantly feel like that excitement than it is for them to feel safety. And so I think what's kind of interesting is firstly to try to find somebody who's

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