289. Loving v. Being Loved and Which Feels Better

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Education, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There is a difference in how I feel about loving my partner and how he feels about loving me. And recently, while trying to work on creating more feelings of bliss for myself in our relationship, I realized that my socialization as a woman was affecting the way that I approached loving my partner. And this socialization doesn’t just affect romantic relationships, it can affect your platonic relationships as well. Tune in to find out the difference between loving someone else and being loved, which feels better, and how you can create more feelings of bliss in all your relationships.

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0:00.0	Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain
0:16.3	and get what you want in life.
0:18.6	And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,
0:24.7	Kara Loyenthyle.
0:28.0	Hello, my chickens, how are you?
0:31.6	I am having the human experience?
0:33.9	I tell you what.
0:35.3	Are you having the human experience too?
0:38.0	You probably are.
0:39.4	But you know, the good thing about the human experience
0:41.6	is that there's usually insight and growth
0:44.3	on the other side of it. I mean there's not really another side to the human experience
0:49.0	overall other than death but I just mean like when we are really in it, like when it is not going the way
0:56.0	we want and we are having a lot of thoughts and feelings, if we are willing to stay present and
1:00.0	curious, then I think there is usually some learning on the other side of that, even if it's just
1:05.6	kind of learning about how we respond to the world, which is some of the most important learning
1:10.1	there is, I think. So last week I was in New Orleans for my birthday and I was
1:16.1	thinking about the past couple of years as I think is common on a birthday. So I
1:21.0	turned 42 this year which I'm almost positive is correct.
1:25.0	I keep having to do the math.
1:28.0	Yes, that's right.
1:29.0	And for me, my 40th birthday was a really significant experience and then 41
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