#49: I Want My Boyfriend to Think I’m Perfect
AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Erin. She is talking to Willy, her fiancé, who wants her to meet his son now, rather than in a few weeks as they had planned. Erin wants Willy to see her as having no needs; she wants him to think she is the perfect woman, strong and capable in any situation. I invite you to close your eyes, open your mind, and join Erin as she questions these stressful thoughts. Let’s do The Work.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. My guest day is Aaron. She is talking to Willie, her fiance, and a meeting that he wants with his son, with the three of them. |
| 0:19.0 | Rather than saying, okay, she wants him to see her as the perfect woman strong capable and |
| 0:27.6 | without any weakness that she's holding you know basically now it's not good let's do it tomorrow on video screen he's believing |
| 0:36.7 | that he is thoughtless withholding and consider it cold unloving uncaring, and she really just does not ever want him to see her as vulnerable. |
| 0:49.3 | So I invite you to, as usual, close your eyes breathe open your mind and let's drop in to |
| 0:59.5 | errand's life and what she is thinking and believing in that situation with Willie. Let's do the work. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, hello hello, hello, what's going on? |
| 1:14.6 | What's going on? |
| 1:16.1 | What's going on? |
| 1:18.1 | If it's good here, it's good there. |
| 1:20.8 | The way I see the world, oh my, that's what's going on here. That world is as I see it to be, believe it to be, so far so good. |
| 1:39.0 | What's going on in your world? |
| 1:43.6 | Those of you new to the work today, |
| 1:45.6 | it's a way of identifying and a way to question the thoughts, |
| 1:50.6 | identify and question the thoughts |
| 1:52.3 | that calls all the suffering in your life. |
| 1:55.0 | How can I say that with such a surety, you know? |
| 1:58.6 | Test it for yourself. |
| 2:01.1 | Test it for yourself. |
| 2:02.1 | It takes a very open mind to confront oneself. But if I can do it, you can do it. |
| 2:10.0 | Erin. |
| 2:12.0 | Hello. Hi, Erin. Hello. |
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