Dangerous Lies People Tell Themselves to Stay In Relationships

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:28.2	Found a really cool article which just rivets into place the things I say every day here.
0:37.7	I don't like when I find articles like that.
0:40.3	It's in YourTango.com.
0:43.5	I have no idea how they came up with that, but we've had a number of times I've used
0:49.7	their articles on the air.
0:51.1	And this is basically seven dangerous lies. People tell themselves
0:56.6	to stay in the wrong relationship. There should be eight. So I'm going to start with my
1:06.5	eighth. Then I'll go through their seventh.
1:12.9	The eighth dangerous lie people tell themselves to stay in the wrong relationships is,
1:18.1	But I love her, but I love him. And I have innumerable times said, this is not love.
1:26.5	Love is awe, admiration, respect. You're being treated like shit. This is not love.
1:36.3	We don't love when we're treated like shit.
1:50.7	But sometimes in the grand scheme of things, let's see, if I'm treated like shit, I'm at least not alone.
1:52.0	I have a boyfriend.
1:53.2	I have a girlfriend.
1:55.6	Some magic will happen and I will be happy because I love him. I love her. That's the first
2:05.7	dangerous lie you tell yourself. And people give me that all the time because they figure,
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