5 Misconceptions About Love

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about five common misconceptions about love and relationships such as: love conquers all, there's only one soulmate for you, the right relationship will not require hard work, and more.

Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:04.3	rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life
0:08.9	lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.2	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:18.8	Before we get to common misconceptions about love and relationships, just want to mention,
0:28.0	I re-launched my circle, which is forums, chats chats and you could hang with me live once a week I'm doing
0:37.2	check-ins using Zoom accountability groups there's also love and sex groups, mindfulness groups, breath work, so come on in and check it out.
0:49.1	Just go to my Instagram at the angry therapist and tap my bio link and I will see you in my circle.
0:55.2	Okay, here are some common misconceptions about love and relationships. Number one
1:07.5	love conquers all. I know we've heard this before. I used to think this was romantic. I believed in this, you know. You just have to love hard enough and
1:11.9	that is going to push you through it's going to get people to change
1:16.8	when in doubt just love harder and of course that is not true I think love can actually destroy us I mean not to be a
1:28.0	debie the downer but instead of love saving us I think love can destroy us, you know, we get into healthy relationships, I mean unhealthy relationships because of love. We do things that go against our truth. We do things, we start compromising self because of love. I think there's more cases of us
1:57.2	being destroyed by love than us being saved by love. And you know what both can happen like you could actually get
2:06.0	destroyed by love assuming that love is unhealthy and then go on your journey find healthy love and then I think that love can of course save you.
2:17.4	So both can happen, but I do think,
2:22.0	or maybe because I'm a therapist, of course I'm getting people who have been destroyed by love not really saved by love
2:29.5	Maybe that's why it feels like that to me but yeah I feel like it's not that love
2:36.4	conquers all love doesn't give you the vine to pull you out of the quicks in
2:42.4	although I know it could, I think for most of us, love is what pushes us into the quicksand.
2:48.8	Okay, this idea of soulmates, this is another huge misconception the idea that there's only one perfect person for you
2:58.3	It can be misleading it can put pressure on you. It could make you believe that there's someone else
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