Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast.

My name is Lisa A. Romano.

I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse.

I am a believer in the power of an organized mind.

My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness, rather

than living a reactive life.

May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope, as you

spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast.

In this session, we're going to be tackling love versus lust.

And it is an important topic because relationships are important.

Most of us are seeking the one.

Most of us are seeking the relationship that we think will bring us joy, make us happy,

fulfill our dreams. Most of us sometimes, or many of us can find ourselves actually waiting

for the person to walk into our life so that we can begin living. I'm sure you know people

who feel like, well, until I get

married, I really can't move forward until I find the one I feel stuck. When I find the right

relationship, that's when I'm going to start doing X, Y, and Z. And so there's a differentiation

that we really need to be clear about. When we are in love,

we understand that the other person that we care about is imperfect, but we love them anyway.

We understand that they have the potential to hurt us, but we have a certain level of trust with them. But we also recognize

that this person can at any point in time cause us to feel distrusting of them. So we recognize the

risk of loving this person. And we have enough time invested in the relationship that we believe that the risk is worth.

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