Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Is it possible they could fall out of love romantically because of work stress?

And the second part, is it the boss and the work environment's fault or is it their

fault okay part one yes people can fall out of love when they're really chronically stressed

because it's numbing yes so it's not that they're falling out of love per se, it's that they're not feeling much.

It's numbing.

Yes.

You're just dealing with the pressures, you don't have time to think or feel about other

things.

There's something that's useful about that, because if you were actually feeling how depressing your situation were,

you might not be able to function. So, you know, so to numb yourself in order to get through it

has its advantages. But that can again spill over outside of work and suddenly you become numb

to many things and that can be including your partner. I've worked with many people who thought they had

fallen out a level whose partner suddenly changed and became really annoying or really this or that.

And I'm like, is your partner who changed or is it you? Like, is it your work stress that has become

so chronic that you can't feel it?

And then when they do get a break, when they do kind of use these tools to kind of lower the stress,

then they start to just reconnect to the feelings.

But also it's dynamic because if you're the partner and this person is standoffish,

you know, they come home at the end of the day and when you go up to give them a hug, they're stiff because they're still in work mode. At some point, you're not going to be a fan either. And then it starts setting up a difficult dynamic between two people. Interesting. Right? Gosh. So work is the enemy, huh? So again, a lot of this is happening in our head.

Work is difficult.

I want to be clear.

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