Jillian on Love Stop Falling in Love With Their Potential
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Dec 22, 2025 What if you're loving someone's potential instead of who they are? Explore how trying to change partners can lead to resentment and emotional burnout. Understand emotional capacity and how real change happens when the pain of staying the same becomes unbearable. Using an apple tree metaphor, examine your expectations in relationships. Jillian shares personal stories and offers insights on accountability, urging listeners to accept partners as they are or to reconsider the relationship altogether.
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Love Means Accepting Who They Are
- Loving someone is not trying to change them into who you want them to be.
- Jillian Turecki says love requires accepting who someone is right now, not who they might become.
People Only Meet You Where They Are
- People can only meet you where they are mentally and emotionally, not where you want them to be.
- Jillian explains that everyone has a current capacity shaped by awareness, conditioning, and state.
Don't Make Change Your Responsibility
- Stop expecting someone to change because you want them to and stop making their change your responsibility.
- Jillian says people change when pain of staying the same outweighs fear of change, not because you demand it.
