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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Why do we chase the wrong people and even push away the relationships we say we want? In this week’s episode, I speak with entrepreneur and bestselling author Lewis Howes, and we unpack the surprising ways we can sabotage love without even realizing it.
From being attracted to what feels exciting but unavailable to letting old wounds dictate our instincts, we explore why the “good ones” can feel less appealing, and how we can retrain our brains. If you’ve ever wondered why you’re drawn to the wrong people or why healthy love feels strange, this conversation is going to hit home.
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0:00.0 | Until you start chasing the right things, that chasing the wrong things will always loop you back to where you start. Why do you think... |
0:29.6 | I'm going to speak for women, because this is a lot of... |
0:33.4 | You coach a lot of women. |
0:34.5 | Why do you think when there's a very reasonable or available man |
0:41.0 | that meets the standards of a woman in front of them, that they're on a date with or they're |
0:45.4 | dating, why is it sometimes that women sabotage that potential really good relationship |
0:51.5 | that is right in front of them. |
1:13.1 | If they meet a good guy? They meet a good guy. They've gone on some date. There's no red flags. There's no ick. And there's like, here's a guy. He's got a job. He's kind. He's like, he's groomed. He's healthy. He's, you know, he can have some funny. He's got, you know, maybe he's not superman but he's got a good good package right why do literally and spiritually why do women sabotage when there's a good man in |
1:25.1 | front of them the question can be applied equally across the genders. |
1:30.3 | And I know I've sabotaged potentially wonderful relationships before. |
1:39.3 | Almost did it with the relationship that, you know, |
1:43.7 | turned out to be my marriage. I almost, like, screwed |
1:47.4 | that up. And, and we have to look at what's... Why do you think you almost screwed it up? |
1:55.0 | We get into these patterns where we chase the wrong things. I can't take credit for that phrase. |
2:01.6 | My wife Audrey loves that phrase, |
2:04.9 | and I got addicted to it too, |
2:06.5 | because it's such a great phrase. |
2:09.1 | This idea that if you chase the wrong things, |
2:12.3 | it might be fun sometimes. |
2:15.9 | But until you start chasing the right things, that chasing the wrong things will |
2:22.7 | always loop you back to where you started. We chase these things that feel off, because it's |
2:30.9 | what we know, and it feels familiar, and it's, you know, you're texting and it's you know you're texting me back |
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