Hello, hello, welcome back to the Love Life podcast.

I am of course Stephen Hussey your host and confident in these episodes.

And today we are talking about the feeling when you feel like you can't take any more

pain in love when you've been through one too many breakups, one too many disappointments

or betrayals or just a feeling that you someone didn't turn out to be who you thought they

were and you just feel like I can't take this anymore. I'm giving up. I'm done. Deal

me out. And that's a position many many people find themselves in when they're struggling

between their desire to go out there again and look for love and you know we all have

that human desire for connection but we also know it comes with risk and we felt that

pain and we felt how terrible it is to go through that and you go through another recovery

and you're down and you feel kicked at a floor and you finally pick yourself back up and

you just think do I really need this? Is it worth it? Is it worth the headache when hey

maybe I'm successful in other areas of my life and maybe I can get meaning from them.

And this is an interaction between Matt on stage in the Philippines and a woman who talks

about her situation and her experience with this feeling like she can't take anymore

and I want you to listen to Matt's response because it's a crucial lesson on changing the

narrative we tell ourselves and having goals that actually inspire us instead of ones

that are linked towards something very small, small like I just I just don't want to suffer

or I just don't want to get hurt and of course that's true but it's not really an inspiring

goal to aim for it's not an inspiring north star to aim for so check it out I want you

to listen to it let's jump to Matt on stage now.

Well first of all I want to thank you because I follow you from I don't know maybe the

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