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The One You Feed

Relationship Mistakes & How to Love Better with Yung Pueblo

The One You Feed

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Yung Pueblo discusses relationship mistakes and how to love better. He explores how attachments can masquerade as love and how true connection requires flexibility, and shares this powerful insight: attachment is just a deep form of inflexibility—it can look like love, but it’s often about control. Diego also delves into why growth, kindness, and compassion are green flags in a partner, and how to advocate for personal needs without clinging too tightly to rigid expectations. This insightful discussion offers practical wisdom for anyone looking to build healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

Key Takeaways:

  • Attachment vs. Love – Attachment can often masquerade as love, but it’s really a deep form of inflexibility and control. True love allows for freedom and growth.
  • The Power of Emotional Flexibility – Our ability to adapt, shift perspectives, and embrace change is essential for healthy relationships.
  • The Role of Personal Growth in Love – Your relationship is only as strong as your willingness to grow. When both partners prioritize self-awareness, connection deepens.
  • Kindness and Humility as Green Flags – Instead of looking for perfection in a partner, look for their willingness to grow, their kindness in difficult moments, and their ability to see beyond their own perspective.
  • The Danger of Comparison – Social media can create unrealistic expectations in relationships. Instead of comparing, focus on what truly matters in your connection.
  • Balancing Freedom and Commitment – Love thrives when we allow each other to change and evolve while staying committed to the relationship.

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0:00.0

If you really want a relationship to be nourishing and happy and compassionate, you've got to really work on letting go of your attachments because when you lessen the attachments, you're increasing not only your freedom, but your partner's potential for freedom.

0:19.0

Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance

0:28.1

of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

0:34.2

ring true, and yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:39.6

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

0:44.3

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:47.2

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:50.6

But it's not just about thinking.

0:52.6

Our actions matter.

0:53.7

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.

0:58.2

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

1:05.3

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

1:13.7

What if the biggest thing getting in the way of love is the way we hold onto it?

1:18.5

That was one of the biggest insights I took from this conversation with Diego Perez, better known as Young Pueblo.

1:20.1

He said something that really stuck with me.

1:22.7

Attachment is just a deep form of inflexibility.

1:27.0

It can look like love, but it's often about control. It reminds me. is just a deep form of inflexibility.

1:27.5

It can look like love, but it's often about control.

1:31.2

It reminded me of something my partner Ginny has said, which is that when we fixate on one

1:36.0

specific thing, like a cupcake, nothing else will satisfy us.

1:40.7

But when we step back and recognize what we actually need underneath it, so many possibilities

1:46.9

open up. That's flexibility. And in this episode, Diego shares how meditation reshaped his relationships,

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