Love is the Ghost That Won't Leave You Alone

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today, John explores love not just as a feeling, but as a conscious choice—one that requires vulnerability, discomfort, deep commitment, and more. Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose, HERE Jump into John’s new Single. On Purpose app HERE Follow John on Instagram HERE Find out more about John HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode, I wanted to read you something I wrote titled, Love is the Ghost
0:08.3	That Won't Leave You Alone. This fell into my inbox because I subscribe to my own newsletter.
0:17.4	If you want to subscribe to my newsletter, if you like what you're about to hear or watch, if you're watching on YouTube, just go to the angry therapist.com.
0:27.3	Okay. This is about love. Look at my hair. Wow. If you watch on YouTube, I have, I have hair issues. I've had hair issues since I was 12 and my merm is growing out. So it's wild. It looked like you can call me John Ruffalo. I look like Mark Ruffalo. I look like Mark Ruffalo.
1:00.0	Anyway, it's not soft edges and perfect timing.
1:04.3	It's not candlelight dinners and synchronized heartbeats.
1:06.0	Love is feral.
1:09.7	It's a thing that finds you when you're busy looking for something else.
1:12.4	Man, ain't that the truth, right?
1:18.9	It's the ghost in the room, shifting the air when you swore you'd never feel that way again.
1:26.6	It's the flicker of recognition in a stranger's face, like an old debt from another life being settled in real time. Love is raw, untamed, and entirely
1:31.3	indifferent to whether you feel prepared for it. The reckless arrival of love. Love doesn't
1:39.3	wait for an invitation. It crashes through the walls you built to keep it out, upending carefully laid plans and dismantling the illusion of control.
1:49.5	It exposes every hidden longing, every suppressed desire, leaving you bare before it.
1:56.1	Love doesn't ask permission. It simply arrives, demanding to be felt.
2:03.0	Love is not a gentle whisper. It is a hurricane. It sweeps through your life, disrupting the order you so carefully maintained, forcing you to confront the truth you've buried.
2:16.7	It won't let you hide behind routine or logic. It demands
2:20.8	honesty, vulnerability, and the courage to let go of everything you thought love was supposed to be.
2:26.5	And if you're lucky, if you don't blink or flinch or try to tame it, you'll see it for what it is.
2:33.4	A wild, holy thing.
2:35.8	A burn with the scars.
2:38.1	A story that rewrites you, whether you wanted it to or not.
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