74. Letting go of unrealistic expectations to improve your relationship
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
So often, our unrealistic expectations of our partner get in the way of creating a great connection. This episode helps you identify these unrealistic expectation you may have, or that your partner may have, and I will show you how letting go of them actually brings you closer, and makes you feel more comfortable within the relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful beans. Welcome back and welcome to anyone that's new to the community. |
| 0:05.5 | Today we are on episode 74 and what I want to be talking about is how to let go of |
| 0:11.4 | unrealistic expectations to improve your relationship. I was going to do one on improving it |
| 0:18.0 | like with yourself, but today I'm going to focus on relationships, |
| 0:22.4 | in particular ones that you are like in a romantic relationship with, but this can 100% apply |
| 0:29.2 | to friendships and relatives as well. I'm just, my examples, though, are going to be based |
| 0:35.4 | around a romantic relationship when you were in an |
| 0:37.8 | intimate relationship with another person. |
| 0:39.8 | Okay? |
| 0:40.8 | Before we get into all of that quick weekly update, which won't go for that long, because |
| 0:45.8 | not too much is going on. |
| 0:47.2 | I think we're in like week 10 or 11 of the lockdown in Sydney. |
| 0:52.7 | So that's, you know, going great. |
| 0:55.3 | Something that I did start to do, though, and I'm absolutely loving it, is I've started |
| 0:59.6 | to do these like long walks with my friend Rochene and we go to a little, um, |
| 1:05.0 | Harbor Beach and we do some laps in the water, obviously. |
| 1:09.2 | And it is so, so good. You have no idea. Like, I cannot wait till things |
| 1:16.2 | open up so I can be going to like those ice bath sauna places again, because those days |
| 1:23.1 | that I get into the ocean, and mind you, it's not even that cold. The ocean here is not that cold. |
| 1:27.1 | We're pretty sport. It's good. It's fucking fresh when you get in, but in the scheme of what cold is, |
| 1:32.1 | it's fine. And we do like four laps of like this, you know, I couldn't even tell you how long |
| 1:36.9 | that is. But the clarity you get in your mind after doing that, You feel so amazing. And one of the really good things that |
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