Choosing a Life Partner

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Sex? Money? Passion? Intellectual companionship? Kids? What are factors to consider when choosing a life partner? Should you be practical, or follow your heart? How is this decision different for men versus for women? We offer some ideas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:03.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,
0:09.0	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.0	I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod.
0:31.0	And today we are going to ferret out the important dynamics around choosing a life partner.
0:39.1	Wow. I mean this is this is such a big topic that a lot of people bring into an analytic
0:46.7	topic and big process yeah yes and the repercussions for for making a poor choice or an unconscious choice is enormous.
0:57.4	You know, it really is.
0:58.6	I think about that sometimes when you think about sort of decisions you can make in your
1:02.0	life that will really impact how you what it looks like and
1:05.8	boy this is a big one you know it's huge and the repercussions can be really life
1:12.4	altering and knock people off a good life path,
1:17.0	especially if there are children,
1:19.0	all kinds of things.
1:21.0	It's probably one of the biggest decisions, if not the biggest decision anyone ever
1:28.6	really makes in life. And you see the other side of it too or someone comes in, you know, maybe having made that decision and then rethinking it and is it is it right to make a change? Is it right to dissolve the partnership? You know, they're sort of wondering if it's possible to kind of do better, if you will, you know.
1:49.0	So that pivotal place that people will often come into our office, which is when the spirit of the marriage seems to have left.
1:58.2	And what happens when it doesn't return or what can we do or they do to bring the spirit of the marriage back to life back into the relationship.
2:07.6	Right, but even just sort of beginning, sort of at the beginning, do you have people come in who are in a relationship maybe and contemplating a next step in terms of commitment and wondering is this the right person?
2:20.3	You know once again, interestingly enough, I hear that dynamism much more in young men than I do in young women at this point that young men feeling that it's their responsibility to make the declaration that this is going to be a sustained
2:37.4	marital or marriage-like relationship and weighing what criteria inside of them should they pay the greatest priority to.
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