I Think I Like You
A counterintuitive approach to navigating dating and building relationships in the digital age. This is for the woman who feels disenchanted by more common dating rhetoric and sometimes even questions if she wants a relationship at all. She already lives a rich, full life. She would like to share that with someone, but not at the expense of herself. What gives? That’s where we’re digging in.
I Think I Like You
The season in life where I thought "Maybe I just don't want a relationship" | Ep 132
There was a moment about five years ago, around age 34, where I thought to myself: Maybe I just don't want a relationship.
Clients will say a similar thing to me, often using language like: I'm not even sure I want to be in a relationship.
In today's episode I'm exploring what rests beneath those words (what they meant for me, what they mean for others) and what it means to intellectualize our pain. I specifically discuss:
- How a debilitating breakup made me never want to try to have a relationship again
- How I very much wanted a partner and a family but struggled so deeply to believe I'd ever have those things, that it made it easier to tell myself I didn't want them
- How and why we intellectualizing our pain
- How focusing on being grateful can serve as a mask to what we want to change in our lives
- What's involved in letting our deep longings and desires breathe
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