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Effective communication is the foundation of every relationship, but specifically in intimacy.
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And there is one big thing that most people do not do in order to become a great communicator.
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And communication has nothing to do with what you say.
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Communication has everything to do to how you
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Welcome to the School of Greatness.
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My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
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And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
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Thanks for spending some time with me today.
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Now let the class begin.
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Welcome back to the School of Greatness.
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I m very excited to talk about this subject today.
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It s the seven keys to lasting love.
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Now, why am I diving into this?
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I ve been fascinated with relationships for as long as I can remember.
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When I was a kid, I really didn t feel connected to too many people.
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I was the youngest of four.
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My parents were working extremely hard in their jobs, but also trying their best to parent us.
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And
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I was always struggling with friendships.
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I didn t really feel like I had a lot of friends growing up.
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I felt like I was more picked on and kind of the kid in the back of the class who was just struggling in school and really just got made fun of a lot.
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And that was the memories, or at least the stories I tell myself.
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And I remember in middle school, high school, college, starting to observe people a lot and seeing how do people work in relationship dynamics?
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What makes people attracted to another person?
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What makes them interested?
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What makes them laugh?
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I started to observe people and really just study human dynamics, human behavior, and social situations.
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And I started to experiment a lot.
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I started to,
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try to build deeper relationships.
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I tried to be a funny human being.
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I tried to act intelligent.
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I tried to jump in quickly in conversation.
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I tried to show off and show a big ego of what I could accomplish in my successes in sports and things like that.
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And really, I learned the hard way about how to not do relationships from multiple
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quote unquote failed intimate relationships that I ve had since I was 16 until I was about 38.
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Um, and a lot of different healing modalities that I ve been through over the last 10 years, emotional intelligence, workshops, coaches, therapists, immersive somatic experiences to get reconnected to my nervous system and my body, get out of my ego and into my heart and truly connect with my authentic self.
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And so today is,
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Breaking down the seven keys to lasting love and figuring out how to develop and create a conscious relationship with someone that you truly love and care about.
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How do you choose the partner wisely, but also when you re with the partner, how do you make sure the relationship lasts?
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Not just through suffering and surviving, but through thriving.
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And that s what this is all about.
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I don t believe that this world and this life is supposed to be sad and suffering and a constant situation where you just feel like, I am not enough.
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This is never going to work out.
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All my relationships fail, and I am never going to find someone that I truly care about and love.
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And I m never going to be able to have a happy relationship, a fulfilled, thriving relationship.
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I truly believe
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that we are meant to overcome the adversities and the stories and the beliefs that hold us back from the things that may have happened to us and write a new story and create a new relationship with ourselves in the world.
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And ultimately attracting an incredible partner for yourself so that you can have a love story, a life full of a lot of love,
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And you can think about every single night, the gratitude and appreciation you have for this relationship.
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I truly believe it s possible.
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One, because I never thought it was possible from all of the stressful, struggling, failed relationships I experienced.
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They felt like a ton of work.
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They felt like we were never in alignment, and we re always off in some way.
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They felt like they just were never the right fit.
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And I don t blame any of the people that I was in relationships with.
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I didn t know how to choose out of really these seven different things we re going to talk about.
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I didn t know how to choose from a place of wholeness and a journey of healing.
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I was choosing out of a place of
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anxiousness, avoidant, being emotionally unattached at certain times, or whatever it might have been out of fear, really, I was choosing out of fear.
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And the goal is to choose from a place of faith and love.
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Knowing that the relationship is never going to be this perfect thing, you re never going to find the perfect person who never makes a mistake, or who isn t flawed.
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And if that s what you re thinking right now, it s just not going to happen.
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But through these seven keys that we re going to talk about in this episode, you can really set yourself up for a lot of success in your relationship.
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And when I think of success, I don t mean it looks good to the outside world.
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I don t mean you ve picked a partner that looks good on paper and that your parents approve of and your friends admire.
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I m talking about success in the terms of you feel a sense of peace,
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gratitude, and harmony inside of you.
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And your environment is full of love.
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Again, it doesn t mean you re not going to have challenging conversations or struggle from time to time or face adversity together.
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But the goal is to create harmony and create a peaceful, thriving relationship with harmony, not with stress, not with chaos, not with explosive emotions and chaotic energy.
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That is not a thriving relationship.
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That might be
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fun and interesting for a short amount of time.
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But over a long lasting relationship that is unsustainable, it will burn you out and it will bring you to your knees and make you feel like the world is crumbling against you.
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Your goal is not to create that relationship.
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but to create one that supports you and becoming your greatest self, the highest version of you, where you can actualize your talents, your gifts and dreams, and manifest those into the world in service through the relationship.
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That s what this is all about.
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So harmony,
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Peace and harmony.
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That is the thing that I ve learned is the highest form of currency in an intimate relationship.
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When you have those things, it feels like you can do anything in your life.
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You feel this renewable energy.
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You feel like
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Man, I m so blessed and grateful that this person fully accepts who I am and wants to see me improve and grow as a human being.
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And they want to see me thrive in my career, my profession, in my health, in my other relationships, my dreams.
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They want to see me thrive.
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They don t get jealous or insecure.
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They get excited for me.
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That s
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what you want to experience when you re in this place of peace and harmony, this renewable energy that makes you feel you are unstoppable.
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And so these seven keys to lasting love, this episode is for those who are willing to do the work.
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This is not supposed to be, it just comes to you effortlessly if you don t do the work.
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Now, if you re willing to invest the time and energy to do the work for yourself, to start to heal, to integrate, to process these different things that you may have been running from or avoiding, or things you ve been chasing to try to feel and fill up something that you feel empty inside.
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We ve got to learn to face ourself.
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We must learn to embrace the parts of us that we don t enjoy, that we feel shame or insecurity or doubt or anger or resentment around.
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We must turn around, face and embrace those things, and then replace those things with a new identity, with a new belief system, with a new way of thinking, feeling, and experiencing life.
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A new lens to perceive the world in a different way.
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But if you re not willing to turn around and face yourself,
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not run away and not chase something else, but turn around and face yourself.
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If you re not willing to embrace the parts of you that you do not like and that you do not love, the things where you feel ashamed of, if you re not willing to embrace those things and start rewiring your brain and rewiring your nervous system to connect to those things and heal them to create wholeness, healthier relationship with self and your own self identity.
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And if you re not willing to replace those old beliefs with new beliefs, and in
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embrace the change that you need to make in your life to feel whole, then this isn t going to work for you.
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This isn t going to work for you.
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You re not going to find Prince Charming, who s going to rescue you from all of your wounds and traumas of your past and heal you by themselves.
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That s not going to happen.
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You re not going to find the perfect woman who s going to make you feel loved and seen and acknowledged because you never felt that before in the past.
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That s not going to happen.
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You have got to be willing to do the work on your own as well.
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And when you do that work, you re going to start to see people differently and you re going to start to attract the ideal partner in your life to then create lasting love.
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The work must be done by you.
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This doesn t come easily without the work.
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When you do the work,
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That s when you attract and it s like, boom, you become a magnet.
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You become a vortex of love.
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You become abundant with possibilities for love.
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Then you have to be discerning to make sure you ask the courageous questions and get to know the right person and make sure you re in alignment with your values, your vision, and your lifestyle.
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Those will be key in choosing your partner with alignment, values, vision, and lifestyle.
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Once you do this,
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then you ve got to follow through on these seven keys.
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And when I looked up the biggest fear people have when it comes to relationships, I found this.
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According to Psych Central, the most common fears within relationships include intimacy, inadequacy, and abandonment.
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Now let that sink in.
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Intimacy,
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inadequacy and abandonment.
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We all have some type of fear that we need to overcome.
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Which one of those is the greatest fear for you?
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If you re watching this right now, leave a comment below on our channel and let me know type in which one that is for you intimacy,
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inadequacy or abandonment?
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Which wound do you have?
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Or have you had in the past?
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Leave a comment below.
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And how many of you have entered a relationship and feared it would go away or you might lose it like if you don t give in or please them of everything they want.
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Maybe they re not going to like me and love me and they re going to leave me.
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I love this quote by Diego, a.k.a.
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Young Pueblo, who we had on the show.
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He said, we allow ourselves to love because it s worth the risk.
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Even though there is a chance of loss or hurt, we take the leap again and again because love is one of the best parts of being alive.
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We don t do it because it s easy.
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We do it because connection makes everything brighter.
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Ooh, I love that quote, Diego Young-Puebla.
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I love that quote because on the other side of fear, when we heal and go through and face ourselves, the parts of ourselves that we don t truly enjoy, that we re afraid of, on the other side of that, that s when it becomes
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a loving experience.
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That s where we can feel love at the highest level.
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But if we re living in fear and anxiety and worry about abandonment or a lack of inadequacy or whatever it might be, if we re living in that anxious feeling, we re going to attract out of a place of anxiousness.
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We re going to stay in a relationship in that, and that s not going to allow us to thrive and flow energetically in love.
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The thing that s missing for most of us is one thing.
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And this thing is holding you back from experiencing the most beautiful life you could ever have.
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It s the thing that keeps you stuck.
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It s the thing that keeps you feeling not enough.
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It s the thing that continues to put you in front of the wrong people and keep you in toxic relationships.
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And the thing that most of us are missing is self love.
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And we will give to others before we give to ourselves.
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We will take care of our pets better than we take care of ourselves.
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We will give everything to everyone else.
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And then we will have a hard time giving that back to self.
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And that
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is just not going to set you up for a successful long-term relationship.
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We must learn to switch this.
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I m not saying stop being a generous human being and stop thinking about people.
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That s not what I m saying.
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But what I am saying, include yourself in the conversation of being a generous human being.
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Include yourself
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in the love you give others.
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Give that love to yourself as well.
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Don t only be selfish.
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Don t only have an ego.
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Don t only think of you.
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Give it to you as well.
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You deserve that.
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And if you re willing to give that to others, but you aren t willing to give that to yourself, how are you going to attract and receive love from another if you can t even receive it from yourself?
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It will be near impossible and you will sabotage the relationship over and over again.
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No matter how much they try to give you, how much they try to love you, how much they try to support you, you will reject it energetically because you haven t learned how to love yourself first.
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So this will be one of the keys that you re going to need to focus on if you want to have a thriving, long lasting relationships.
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And before we dive into these seven keys, I want to read one more quote that I found online.
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I m not sure who said this, but I found this quote that says, if you want something, you have to become it first.
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If you want love, love yourself first.
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If you want to be valued, value yourself first.
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If you want to be taken care of, take care of yourself first.
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Become the energy you want to attract.
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I want to read that again.
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Become the energy you want to attract.
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In relationships, all forms of relationships, there are keys, tools, and insights to find love.
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And today I want to talk about ways to making love last.
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Love for your partner, but maybe even more importantly, developing love for yourself.
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Because again, if you do not learn the tools for loving you, you ll never have a long lasting intimate relationship with another person.
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So key number one is communication.
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Now, that may not be some new concept for you, but how many of you have received feedback from your partner, a friend or coworker?
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that you are not the best at communicating, or maybe you don t even know how to receive feedback because it s a one way channel of communication and you re not a good listener.
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Effective communication is the foundation of every relationship, but specifically in intimacy.
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And there is one big thing that most people do not do in order to become a great communicator.
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And communication has nothing to do with what you say.
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Communication has everything to do to how you listen.
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And most people do not have the skill of listening.
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It is a skill.
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It s something I ve been working on my entire life.
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I still get to work on listening.
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And I have done over 11 years of interviews that I ve recorded.
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Over 1500 episodes, I ve interviewed so many different incredible minds in the world, and I still need to learn how to listen better.
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I still interrupt sometimes.
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I still add my two cents when someone s talking.
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I still do those things.
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Now, yes, that is natural conversation and flow.
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You re ebbing and flowing in a conversation, but the key
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to being a great communicator is not how funny you are, how interesting you are, what you say, how smart you are.
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It s how well you listen.
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This is everything in relationships, everything.
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I feel blessed in some ways because my biggest adversity and challenge as a kid
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was my fear of speaking in public.
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I could not stand up in front of an audience of three or four peers and speak for a sentence without feeling like everyone was going to laugh at me.
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I couldn t get up in front of the class and read aloud because I had dyslexia and struggled reading.
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I just was always worried about how people are going to think about me based on what I said.
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So this was a big insecurity and fear that I needed to overcome.
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And that became a great gift for me because I was afraid of that.
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So it taught me how to just sit there, observe and listen and really pay attention.
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What are people saying?
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What are they not saying?
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What are they saying with their body language, their facial expressions?
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What do they,
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What are they wanting to say that they should be saying?
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And the more I would observe this in different social settings from elementary school, all the way into the business world, to interviewing some of the top people in the world, the more I d experience this at live events, experiences, all these different social dynamics and places that I would go, the more I would do this, the more I would realize that listening is the key.
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It s the key to communication.
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And the funny thing is, I would...
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I would go to events in my early 20s and I would somehow get in the room with big leaders, thought leaders and authors and speakers and somehow be in the room with them.
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And I always be thinking to myself, man, I m 10, 20 years younger than this individual.
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I have no experience compared to what their experience is.
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They are just so much smarter than me.
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And so all I would do is ask them a few questions and look at them and pay attention.
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pay attention and then I would ask a follow-up question.
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And I would do this for 10, 20, 30 minutes.
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And if we were at an event and I would essentially be asking a few different questions for a period of time.
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And at the end of this conversation, the person would always say, man, you re just such an interesting person.
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Like this has been a great conversation.
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And I m like, I didn t even say anything.
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I just asked questions.
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But if you want to become,
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one of the most interesting people in the room or in a relationship, become the most interested person in the room or in that relationship.
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And what that means is be interested and curious about other people, especially in your relationship and communication.
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Most people, they might do this in the first six months to a year, but then they stop doing this.
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They stop being interested and then you lose communication.
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So be willing to ask questions, be willing to be vulnerable and open up, be willing to pay attention.
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This is one of the keys to lasting love is communication and communication is not all about speaking.
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It s about listening, observing, and being curious.
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We ve had several different social dynamics, individuals, communication experts, facial expression experts on the show.
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So make sure to check out some of these episodes that we ve had that can give you tools for increasing your communication in relationships.
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And again, by going to your partner and checking in on them, by asking them how they re doing and actually listening to them, this goes way better than just speaking what happened to you all day long or complaining to them.
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So be willing to listen and ask questions.
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The second key.
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of long lasting love is vulnerability.
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Now, ladies, you may be thinking, yeah, I ve been looking for a vulnerable man.
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I ve been looking for a man to open up to, to show me his emotions and all the men I find are emotionally unavailable and they re closed off and they re just ego driven.
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And listen,
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I used to be that way.
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So I know how it feels.
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But I didn t have a safe environment with me.
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That s why we ve all got to be doing the work so that vulnerability opens up and is available for us.
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But ladies, if you want a man to be vulnerable with you, you need to
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first create a safe environment that they can be vulnerable.
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And the challenge that I ve faced in past relationships is I have been vulnerable.
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I ve showed emotion in terms of like sadness and tears, and I ve been made fun of.
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when that happened in previous relationships.
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And I ll tell you what, that doesn t make you feel safe.
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That doesn t make you want to show your emotions or be vulnerable ever again.
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It makes you want to toughen up.
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It makes you want to say never again, am I going to be open and real and vulnerable with this person because I don t feel safe.
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And if you want to shut a man down, then don t let them be vulnerable.
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Make fun of them, tell them never to show their emotions, and you will get a one-sided man.
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That man may be strong and he may be tough and he may get things done.
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But when you want someone to really feel intimate and vulnerable with, you ve already shut that out of your relationship.
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And that s going to create distance in a long-term relationship.
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So vulnerability is key number two to lasting love.
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Now, I m not saying every day you need to be vulnerable and sitting there eye to eye, staring at each other and crying and weeping over something every single day.
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That s not vulnerability.
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Vulnerability is authenticity.
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It s being real.
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It s expressing how you truly feel.
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But most people don t express how they truly feel.
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They feel like they ve got to act apart.
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They feel like they can t truly open up.
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And that really will hurt you.
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So again,
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There s a lot of strength.
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that comes in doing the internal work.
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There s a lot of strength that comes in facing the different traumas that you might have, whether they re little traumas or big traumas.
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But this is the work that you re gonna need to do in order to be vulnerable.
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And it took me a long time.
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So you gotta also give people grace because some people s traumas are so deep that they don t wanna face those things right away.
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And you can t force someone to face these things.
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You can t pressure someone to be vulnerable if they re not ready.
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Take a breath and accept the person and meet them where they re at.
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It took me 25 years to really start opening up about some of the biggest traumas that I had from sexual abuse and abandonment and other feelings and emotions that I felt really triggered by that I wasn t willing to talk to people about until I felt like enough was enough and I had to start doing the work.
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And it was a 10, 11 year journey from that point that I ve been constantly evolving, doing the work and growing.
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And I still have a lot of work that I get to do and that s okay.
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But again, don t force and pressure someone to be vulnerable.
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You know, Dr. Brene Brown, who we ve had on the show, amazing interview that we had is well known for discussing the power of vulnerability in relationships and how it fosters intimacy and deepens connections.
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And I love this quote by Brene Brown.
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Vulnerability is not winning or losing.
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It s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control of the outcome.
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Man, when you re vulnerable and you have the courage to show up and be seen.
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and not have control of what is going to happen next.
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How is someone going to respond?
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How am I going to feel?
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Man, that takes courage.
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And it may seem like a small or simple thing, but that takes emotional vulnerability, emotional courage.
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I can go on the football field against the biggest man, head to head, smash my head against them, full speed, tackle them, score touchdowns.
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I could get in a fight with anyone and take care of myself.
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I can do whatever I need to do.
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That s courage.
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That wasn t courage.
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You know, there might be moments where I need to be able to defend and protect myself if there s a life or death threat.
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But most of the times, it s an ego threat.
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It s a threat to our ego and our image that causes us to fight, to confront, to pick a fight with someone.
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And that doesn t serve us.
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We re confronted by ego.
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That s not courage.
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Courage is actually rising above that and knowing I am strong and capable enough to handle any situation because I m training and developing myself.
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But it doesn t mean I need to use these anger or aggression to fight in any situation.
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She says, it s not about winning or losing, right?
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It s about having the courage to show up and be vulnerable without knowing the outcome.
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The challenge is you ve got to be making sure that you first
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Attract a partner who is vulnerable with you.
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Before you get, you know, committed, date the person, get to know them, make sure that you can be vulnerable in the first few months of dating them before committing to them and getting married to them and realizing, oh, there s no vulnerability here.
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We ve always been surface level, because that surface level is not going to support you in thriving for a long lasting relationship.
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Maybe it works for a year or two, but eventually that s going to get old.
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Key number three, respect.
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If you do not respect your partner, if you do not respect the life that they ve chosen, then that means that you haven t accepted them.
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That means you ve chosen a partner that you do not accept.
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And if you don t accept them, that means you judge them.
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It means you re judging them that they need to make a change.
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They need to become someone different.
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They need to do different things and have different beliefs and have a different way of thinking and acting and different careers and all these different things.
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That means that you are essentially are above your partner.
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You think that they need to change in order to make you happy and meet you where you re at.
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No, my friend.
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That is a lack of respect.
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And that is a lack of vulnerability and emotional courage that you had early in the relationship because you didn t ask the questions.
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You didn t listen.
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Like we talked about in key number one, communication, you didn t listen fully and ask the courageous questions to understand, is this a person that I respect?
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Is this a person that I respect their values, their vision, their lifestyle?
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Is this a person that I respect on their whole past?
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As opposed to holding on to the decisions they made in their past and the things that they re ashamed of.
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Can you embrace those things and accept them, knowing that they ve overcome them, knowing that they have made mistakes in the past, just like you, because you re not perfect.
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And you ve learned to respect how they overcame their shame, their insecurity.
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their doubts, their fears, maybe the mistakes they ve made, maybe the flaws that they have.
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And if you can learn how to accept them, then you can learn how to respect them.
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And a lot of people don t have respect because they haven t created clear boundaries and agreements.
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They haven t communicated.
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These are my boundaries.
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These are my agreements.
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This is what I want to do moving forward.
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So we ve got to be thinking about respect in the terms of how I made a conscious decision on how to choose a partner that I accept.
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Have I had all the conversations that I need to have?
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to feel like I accept this person and therefore I can respect them.
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Again, respect comes with personal agreements and boundaries.
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And I ll just share a couple of those from previous relationships that I was in.
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I never really created boundaries.
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I never really created agreements.
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I just kind of wanted there to be peace.
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I wanted there to be happiness and joy all the time.
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So I would give in.
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when the person wasn t happy and I would do things that I didn t want to do to try to keep the peace and try to make sure that there wasn t too much stress or there wasn t too much chaos.
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And I usually ended in more resentment from me and then a lack of respect for the person I was dating because I felt like I was doing things that I didn t want to do.
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And I m sure they did vice versa.
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So it created a lack of respect.
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and more resentment.
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And that resentment doesn t allow you to create long lasting love.
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So I lacked the courage to communicate and to give clear boundaries and create agreements.
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And most people are unwilling to respect themselves with clear boundaries and agreements because
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they re afraid to lose the relationship.
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They re afraid, well, what if I do this?
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What if I created a boundary and agreement and the person doesn t like it and they don t want to be with me?
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That is one of the biggest fears, the insecurity of inadequacy.
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And when you face yourself,
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Embrace the parts of you that are insecure and heal and mend those things and replace yourself With the higher version of you the new identity that serves you and your mission at a higher level Then you understand if this person does not accept me for my boundaries and my agreements Then I have chosen the wrong person and this will not last long term
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When you say, I am going to choose you as my partner and be in a committed relationship, that means hopefully you ve gotten to know all the parts of them or as much as you can.
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And then you can say, I accept you for who you are, and I m not going to change you.
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Most of the time, people are trying to change the person they re with.
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to make themselves feel better.
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That is not your responsibility.
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Your responsibility is on you to make sure you create an environment of peace and harmony inside, to have a beautiful relationship with yourself, a joyful, happy relationship with yourself.
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That is your responsibility and your job.
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It s not to make the other person happy.
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You add joy to your partner, you add to their happiness, but you do not make them happy by changing who you are.
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That will never work.
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Key number four, appreciation.
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Now, I m a big fan of the concept of love languages.
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Not everyone likes this idea.
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But I just think it s a good practicality for getting some basics out of the way in understanding how your relationship is working.
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And if you figure out which one of your love languages are, five love languages, appreciation or words of affirmation, physical touch, for me, that is like a feeling of appreciation.
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When someone touches me, when someone s rubbing my back or just holding my hand or just telling me how much they appreciate me through words of affirmation,
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I just feel like, oh, the person I m with has chosen to love me and they appreciate all the parts of me when I don t feel appreciation.
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It doesn t have to be every day or something like that.
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But when I don t feel someone I m appreciated in general.
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It s kind of like, what s the point of being in this relationship?
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And the same for you.
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You ve got to be showing appreciation in ways that the other person can receive them.
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And the challenge is if some people aren t able to receive appreciation, that might be a tough way to have a long lasting relationship also.
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But if you can understand the love language of the person you re with, maybe it s not words of affirmation or physical touch.
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Maybe it s quality time.
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Maybe it s acts of service.
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Maybe it s gifts.
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Whatever it is, ask them how they feel the most loved.
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When you ask them and you do those things, it s just going to bring them more joy and make them feel appreciated.
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If you are in a relationship with someone,
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And you do not feel appreciated.
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I don t think that s going to support you in being in the relationship long-term.
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You re going to feel resentment, anger, and frustration.
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And you re going to wish that this person acknowledged you for all that you did for them in this relationship and the ways that you could receive them.
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So appreciation is key and making sure you communicate to the person the way you like to be appreciated.
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Now, I, for some reason, when I was in my wounded season, when I would attract people out of a wound and out of chemicals and out of desires versus out of values, vision and lifestyle,
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I would always seem to be in a relationship where someone didn t share my love language as the top love language.
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And so they always liked things that I wasn t naturally good at doing or showing and vice versa.
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They would do things that I wasn t really good at receiving.
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I liked to receive love in a different way and I like to show it in a different way.
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And so it always seemed like it was so much harder work because the things that I wasn t naturally good at,
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they wanted me to do.
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And they would request me doing it over and over again.
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And it felt like, man, this is just, it s not who I am.
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It s not the way I naturally do things in the world.
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Whereas when I started to heal and I finally attracted a great relationship with my fiance, Martha, we have the exact same love languages in order from top to bottom.
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So what that means is I naturally show up
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giving to her love exactly the way she likes to receive love.
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So it means I don t have to change who I am naturally for her to feel loved organically on a daily basis.
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I just need to keep showing up my best self and vice versa.
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She shares her love with me and the ways that I truly enjoy to receive love.
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And it s just a beautiful way of
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saying, okay, learning and communicating about each other before you get into the relationship, just to see if you re aligned as much as possible.
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And I m not saying you re not going to have a great love life and relationship if you re not perfectly aligned to those things, but you want to feel organic and in alignment in the best way possible with how you feel and give appreciation.
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Key number five is growth.
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Now, this is something that I just believe
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is necessary.
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Either you both need to be willing to grow together, or at one point or another, you ll probably grow apart.
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So either you both commit to saying, hey, we are individually going to be working on ourselves throughout our relationship.
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We re going to be growing, healing, developing, becoming a greater version of ourselves.
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And we re going to be working together in the relationship to grow and develop the relationship as well.
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If both individuals are willing to do that,
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you have a big chance of success for long lasting love.
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I m not saying it s a hundred percent going to work out, but you have a greater chance of long lasting love.
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Let me know in the comments, if you ve ever been in relationship with someone else who didn t want to personally grow, they didn t want to develop, they didn t want to try new things.
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They didn t want to get coaching or have feedback.
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They were always right.
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They never wanted to,
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you know, learn how to improve themselves.
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They never wanted to go to a workshop or read a book or listen to a podcast about ways to better themselves.
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It is exhausting being with someone if you are into personal growth and wanting to improve, and the other person does not want to at all.
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It is exhausting.
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And it can only last so long.
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So either both people need to make a commitment and say, we re good where we re at right now.
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We ve learned everything we need to learn up to this level of our lives where we ve met.
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We don t need to learn anything else.
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We don t need to improve anything else.
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Let s live at this level.
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Let s stay here.
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All the knowledge we ve gained at this point is as much as we need.
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And we re both going to stay at this level and not going to try to improve and grow to higher levels.
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I think either both people need to come to agreement that that s where they re going to be.
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Or both people need to agree to personal growth and having a growth mindset, having an abundance mindset and being willing to say, you know what, I m going to try new things.
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Again, it doesn t mean I need to change who I am, my personality.
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You re still going to accept the person who they are, but the commitment they ve made to
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personal growth, they will naturally evolve over time.
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So you either need to both commit to zero growth.
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or both commit to personal growth individually and together in the relationship.
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I just think that s so important.
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Not just in the relationship, but both individually and together in the relationship to allow it to thrive.
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If I look back, every relationship I ve ever had, we were not in alignment on those, on that philosophy.
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The relationship I m in now, we both individually have strategies, skill sets,
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support to help us develop individually, separate of each other.
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but also we work together to grow together.
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We go to workshops together.
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We meditate together.
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We get coaching together.
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We go to therapy together.
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We do, we do activities to support growth in the relationship.
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We have conversations and go through journaling prompts.
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We do things to allow communication, respect and growth to happen together.
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And all of the successful relationships that I ve interviewed and met with,
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who ve been together for a long time, they talk about willing to grow individually and together.
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So again, I encourage you to make that commitment.
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That doesn t mean you need to be obsessed every single day and wake up at 5am and meditate for 10 hours a day.
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go, you know, do workshops nonstop, but investing in a few things every year and say, Hey, I m going to read this book and let s go through this book together.
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I m going to get a coaching session once, once in a while and, and try to improve myself, just whatever it is for you.
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I just think it s important.
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Number six,
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is quality time together.
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A lot of times people do this in the first six to 12 months, you dedicate quality time and intimacy and experiences and adventure.
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And then for whatever reason, you just end up going to work, coming home, watching Netflix, eating pizza and ice cream and going to sleep and repeating that over and over again for years.
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That is not going to be a life that you love.
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you ve got to be willing to spend quality time together.
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It s not sitting there and just watching TV together and eating ice cream and pizza.
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Sure, you can do that once in a while.
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But if that s your life, that s not going to be a fulfilling life that you really enjoy.
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And everyone s different here.
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But some practical things that can enhance the quality time you spend together is
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really setting aside time every single week and scheduling either a date night and experience or something where you re not on your phones, where you re not in front of a TV, where you re not just watching a YouTube video together or watching Netflix, but actually scheduling something where it s shared quality time.
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I think doing a digital detox is one of the greatest things you can do in a relationship.
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So that d be another thing you could try.
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Hey, can we go away tonight?
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and leave our phones at home.
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I don t know many people that can do that, but it is freeing.
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If you just say, hey, let s go on a walk together after dinner and leave our phones at home.
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Let s go out on a date and leave our phones at home.
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And don t worry, you re gonna figure out how to get to the location.
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You can write down the address, you can get there a certain way, but you can leave your phones at home for four hours.
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You will survive.
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Trust me, I m a millennial.
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I grew up at a time without cell phones.
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We were able to survive and get around and connect with each other without having to be on our phones.
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I dare you to go on a digital detox date for four hours with someone and see what happens when you both don t take your phones.
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No Apple Watch, no phones, no iPads, no trickery here.
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Just go out and spend quality time together.
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Go for a walk for 20 minutes without your phone and watch what unfolds in your life.
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It will be magic.
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You ll feel free and you ll feel connected more than ever.
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Taking the time to have meaningful conversations.
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You know, Martha and I do, you know, she s incredible because she wants to grow constantly.
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So we will read a book together and we ll do a chapter at a time.
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It doesn t have to take all day, but we ll read a chapter for 30 minutes with different exercises or questions that we can ask each other about relationships.
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And this is meaningful conversations.
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It allows us to ask,
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things courageously without having to do them without some prompt or exercise.
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This is a safer way to have tougher conversations and talk about things that maybe still are uncomfortable for us.
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So have those meaningful conversations, those deeper conversations.
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Mindful activities.
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You know, man, there are so many activities that are fun, that are, you know, harmless, but they may not be mindful.
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So sure, have those date nights, those activities, those experiences, have fun, but also take time in the relationship every single year to do something mindful.
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Last year, Martha and I went on a seven day retreat together, meditation retreat with Dr. Joe Dispenza, who we ve had on this show many times.
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It was incredible.
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We didn t have our phones on us.
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We were meditating all day and learning about our minds and the power of our minds and connecting to our nervous system and our body and creating an abundant life.
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When you create that shared experience together with mindful activities, it just bonds you in a beautiful way and creates more harmony, more connection, more vulnerability and intimacy.
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And again, it sets you up for lasting love.
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It s so key.
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So again, mindful activities is one of the keys to creating quality time together.
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And number seven key adaptability.
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Now, adaptability, flexibility, you know, some people say, you know, the key to a great relationship is compromise.
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Compromise.
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But for whatever reason, I just don t like that word.
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I think there s a better way of saying it.
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And I think that s being flexible, being adaptable.
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And again, you can t be the only one in the relationship when both people are willing to have this mentality.
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Then when things have to constantly change, or they don t go as planned, or you need to change your plans, you re both able to come in this place and say, okay, it s okay.
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We re both adaptable.
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We can both handle this challenging moments, tough moments, stressful moments.
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You re both adaptable.
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You re not both rigid and saying, ah, I m freaking out.
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And I just think that s key.
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It s not about compromising.
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It s not about.
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sacrificing necessarily, although there will be sacrifices.
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But I really look at sacrifices as decisions and choices that you are willing to make to create a healthy, thriving relationship.
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And when you make a commitment with decisions and choices that you want to be in this,
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You re saying, you know what this means.
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You know, the responsibility that this means to be in a committed intimate relationship.
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And with that means you ve got to be flexible.
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You ve got to be adaptable.
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Now, if there s any parents watching right now, you probably know the definition of adaptability more than anyone.
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I m not a parent yet, but I can understand that when you have kids, you think you have plans, but your plans are going to change all the time.
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You think you re going to be somewhere at a certain time, but if your kid gets sick or is throwing, you know, a fit or has to go to the bathroom and takes longer, you have to be flexible and adaptable.
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You have to get out of yourself and be willing to adapt to whatever situation is happening.
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The same thing in a relationship.
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If you re single, you live your life on your terms, but you re in a relationship, you ve committed to wanting to be there for another.
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So if your partner or the person you re with is struggling or having a hard time, you can t just neglect that person.
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If they re sick, you can t just neglect them.
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You ve got to treat them.
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You ve got to take care of them.
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You ve got to be there for them as you would want them to be there for you.
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That s what intimacy, that s what love, and that s what a relationship is.
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It s the ability to adapt and be there for one another.
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Seven keys to lasting love.
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I want to leave you with this quote by Dr. Joe Dispenza since I did mention him and I
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And I loved the episode on love and attracting love in your life.
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It s got over 10 million views on our YouTube channel.
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So if you haven t seen this video with Dr. Joe Dispenza on love, I highly recommend watching it.
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But here s the quote by Dr. Joe Dispenza.
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He said, falling in love with life is falling in love with yourself.
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And falling in love with yourself is falling in love with life.
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Remember, you are love.
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You are already loved.
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Love is abundant in your life.
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And you being born means you are love.
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The reason you re here is to experience and express love on the highest forms.
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We have to remember one thing though.
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And I think a lot of us have lost the memory that we are love, that we are valuable, that we are enough.
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And we have to turn around or look yourself in the mirror and remind yourself that you were created to be here, to experience love at the highest levels.
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And even though you maybe have never experienced
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it yet.
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And maybe though you ve been told that you were nothing, that you weren t going to amount to anything, that you don t matter, or people have neglected you, abandoned you in certain ways in your life, and you don t feel loved.
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I m telling you, you are loved.
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I want to remind you that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter.
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But it s not going to happen overnight of you knowing this, unless you re willing to do the work.
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Unless you re willing to really face the parts of you that you don t like to look at.
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The things that you ve never told anyone.
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The things that you re the most ashamed of.
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Unless you re willing to turn around and face those parts of yourself.
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And embrace them.
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and forgive yourself and forgive others who have harmed you or hurt you and really create an integrated healing whole self internally.
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If your body does not feel safe emotionally or physically in certain situations, it means you ve got work to do.
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If you haven t been able to connect with
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or find the right person in your life right now, it means you ve got work to do.
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If you don t feel like you re enough or you re valuable or you ll never be enough to be in a great relationship, you ve got work to do.
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And I m telling you, it s an exciting time.
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It s an exciting time because
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The years that I did the deepest work, the years that were painful to face myself, were some of the greatest years.
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Because you know why?
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They set me free.
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They allowed the pain in my heart to finally go away.
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It set me free.
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It opened me up to attract someone in my life who has given me so much more love and peace than I ve ever experienced before.
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That s where the work begins.
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Again, if you feel like you re in this situation in your life, leave a comment below that you re excited to do the work, you re excited to find love, and you re excited to be the love of your life first, before you attract the love of your life next.
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Again,
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I m so excited.
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And if no one has told you today, I want to remind you that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter.
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And now it s time to go out there and do something great.