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We Can Do Hard Things

135. Letting Go of How It’s “Supposed to Be”

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

1. The twinge of loneliness that comes with searching for what it *seems* like everyone else has. 2. A Varsity-level question from Christie that challenges everything we said about Help on Tuesday’s episode. 3. How to make “your thing” more of an “our thing” in relationships–and how Abby got Glennon into the sports. 4. If there is anything worse than vacationing with your own kids, it’s vacationing with other people’s kids–and the time Glennon staged a sketchy early exit from a group trip. 5. Abby and Glennon’s brilliant compromise boundaries for future extended family gatherings. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. We love your guts. We love you so much that all we've

0:14.3

been doing is listening to your amazing voice mails and questions. And today we are

0:19.5

hearing from the Pod Squad. Are people? So my favorite days are people still saying

0:25.9

woot woot? No, they're not. Someone tell us what the new generation of woot woot is. I

0:29.8

don't know. It's just you still saying woot woot. I actually don't know if anyone

0:33.2

ever said woot woot. Okay. But I do write it in a text everyone. So I'll woot. Let's go.

0:40.1

Let's hear from our first pod squadron. Julie. Hi, Glennon, Abby, sister. This is Julie.

0:47.5

My question is a sports question. So my partner is a professional soccer coach.

0:55.8

In the US, and I hate sports, but I love him. I'm trying to figure out how to be supportive

1:05.6

and engage in the sports or soccer without hating my life. So I just think there's too

1:14.5

many sports, too many games, too many seasons, too many things. It's never stopped. And

1:20.8

I find myself rejecting, like, even conversations about scoring goals and all those things. Like,

1:28.7

I'm just like, I don't care how many times the ball went in the net or like, who won? I just

1:34.2

genuinely don't. And so, yeah, I guess my question is, how do I support and not hate my life?

1:41.4

That's all. Thank you. This is such a foreign concept to me. I have no idea how to talk to

1:46.8

Julie about this because I've never experienced anything like these feelings. I love Julie's

1:52.8

guts. I love this question. Do you want to take a stab? Yeah, really to Julie's husband maybe?

2:00.3

I mean, listen, Julie, I appreciate the honesty here. I think one thing that I would ask in

2:07.8

in response is, do you love your husband and do you love what he does? Right? Like,

2:18.6

through his eyes. So, for an example, I watch my wife read books for hours during a day.

2:29.0

She does. And reading is not something that it's not like my first instinct. I'm not like,

2:35.4

oh, where's my book? Like, but I do see Glenin reading all the time and she loves reading.

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