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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

(Matt Monday): How to Stop Addictive Thoughts About Someone Bad for You

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

“How can I stop addictive thoughts about someone who’s wrong for me?”

When we really like someone but know there are signs of problems, we’ll often overvalue them for their charisma and charm . . . and set ourselves up for massive future heartbreak.

If you find yourself getting fixated on someone too quickly—trying to make them fit into a relationship based on who they could be—then watch this week’s episode (taken from my Live Retreat) to figure out when someone is truly worthy of your investment.

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0:00.0

You really want to get obsessed with someone because they're super charming or because you think you have a great connection with that person?

0:06.0

You have a great connection with that person? Let the relationship prove it out. Oh, Hey, it's Matthew Hussey with the Love Life Podcast.

0:28.7

Hey everybody, it's Matthew Hussey with the Love Life

0:30.7

podcast.

0:31.3

I am excited to share this clip with you today let's get into it.

0:39.2

How can you stop the addictive thoughts about a man that's not right for you.

0:46.7

Is that a good one?

0:49.2

Firstly, we have to ask ourselves

0:51.6

where are these addictive thoughts coming from.

0:54.0

If he's not right for you, why, and you've truly accepted that, then why the addictive thoughts?

1:02.0

Right?

1:03.0

Now what this person is really saying is logically,

1:05.0

I know he's not right for me, but emotionally,

1:08.0

that's not become a truth for me.

1:11.0

And if you want to understand on an emotional level, it's like, I mean it is incredible

1:18.6

what happens to us as human beings where we start to like someone. We decide so quickly how wonderful they'd be for us.

1:28.0

And then based on a fantasy we start having these addictive thoughts.

1:32.0

This has nothing to do with reality.

1:36.0

Nothing. And the one thing to be self-referential about this, The one thing I know is I may have a lot of thoughts

1:46.4

about someone that I have a crush on

1:48.4

that I want to talk to and I want to ask out

1:51.6

and there might be an addictive quality to wanting to ask them out.

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