3142: How to Love Your Partner With All Your Mind (And Not Just Your Heart) by Vironika Tugaleva

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3142: Vironika Tugaleva explores why loving with all your heart doesn’t guarantee healthy relationships and how self-awareness, boundaries, and communication are just as vital as deep emotions. She offers practical insights on balancing passion with wisdom, guiding readers toward more sustainable and fulfilling connections. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.vironika.org/loving-with-all-your-heart-is-not-enough/ Quotes to ponder: "Love cannot exist without honesty, empathy, compassion, and communication." "Sometimes, people love with all their hearts, but their hearts are carrying wounds, fears, and unhealed pain." "Love is not enough. It has to be coupled with self-awareness, maturity, and a willingness to grow." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily. How to Love Your Partner with All Your Mind and not just your
0:06.4	heart by Veronica Tugaleva of Veronica.org. And I'm Dr. Neomalek. Hello and welcome to another
0:13.6	bonus Sunday episode where I share an article from one of the other podcasts and our network
0:18.8	that I think will add some value for you here.
0:21.8	Today's post comes from Optimal Relationships Daily,
0:24.7	where articles covering marriage, dating, friendship, and more are read to you every day.
0:31.3	So, with that, here's Greg with the post and commentary as we optimize your life.
0:45.3	How to love your partner with all your mind and not just your heart. By Veronica Tugaleva of Veronica.org
0:49.3	No one enters a relationship thinking,
0:52.3	I'll love you for a year or two, but then I'll get cold, distant, and dissatisfied.
0:59.2	Perhaps we'll try some contempt and silence at that point.
1:02.4	Well, maybe the rogue sociopath does.
1:05.3	The rest of us, however, start out with the best intentions.
1:08.4	We intend to love each other with all our hearts. We promise
1:11.7	to love forever. That is, we promise to feel love forever. We make big promises, and then we break them.
1:19.6	Then we blame ourselves for breaking them, and blame our partners for pushing us to that break.
1:24.7	We never ask ourselves if such promises can actually be kept. Imagine promising
1:30.2	your friend that you will enjoy the smell of her cooking forever, no matter what dishes she prepares.
1:36.2	You can promise all you want, but your nose functions under the rules of automatic reflexes that
1:41.6	will deny your best intentions. All it takes is one foul smell. It's the
1:46.8	same with our emotions, with our hearts. The truth is that emotions are not really under our direct
1:52.5	conscious control. We can certainly try to control them, but you and I both already know that it's
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