And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is called Love Yourself.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hey there, you lovelies. It's that time of the year again.

The Valentine's Day cards are everywhere, aren't they? Seems like only five

minutes since the last time capitalism and commercialism tried to use emotional tactics to make

us spend our money. Now, at time of recording, unless I bottle it completely, this is going to genuinely be the first time

I've not given my wife a Valentine's card since we met in 1996. Now, like I say, I've got time

to bottle it, because it's a couple of weeks away yet for me. And the two of us did say last year

we weren't going to bother anymore, and I bottled it, and I bought one

at the last minute. But as it stands right now, we're probably not going to get each other

or anything for Valentine's Day. She stopped a couple of years ago, because she hates

being told what to do by anybody, especially society, and she's repeatedly told me to not bother getting her anything for Valentine's Day,

that we don't need social pressure to remind each other that we love each other. But that's probably

because, in one way or another, we show it throughout the rest of the year. Because that's what you do when you love somebody,

isn't it? When you are genuinely interested in making sure that they are happy, we show them

that we care. We show them that we love them. Have you watched a man on the inside on Netflix at all? Such a lovely

programme. It's based on a Chilean film from a few years ago. But it's redid it for America. It's very

sweet, very easy to watch and enjoy. And it's about being a private detective, except it's not. It's about people and relationships

and love. And there's one scene where Ted Danson's character is talking to his daughter and he

says, because it's late at night and his daughter has got some long trip home or something he says,

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