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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

(Rewind): What You Need to Do When You Meet Someone You Like

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever met someone you really liked and spent weeks terrified you were going to blow it? 

You’d analyze every message they sent with your friends. You’d worry when they went silent for several hours, constantly checking your phone, looking for signs of hope. 

Suddenly, you become a person you weren’t before: needy, anxious, possessive—and you can feel that energy making you more and more helpless. 

I know what this is like, and trust me: if you ever want to build a great relationship without playing games, you need to break out of this mindset fast. 

Here’s how you change it... 

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0:00.0

What if that takes them away from me?

0:02.0

You know, that job opportunity they've got, that exciting thing that's good for them.

0:06.0

We're afraid to encourage it because we want to keep things safe.

0:09.0

We don't want to lose them. This is a good thing. Hey, everybody, is Matthew Hussey with the Love Life podcast. I am excited to share this

0:35.0

clip with you today. Let's get into it.

0:40.5

I think we have a slight problem right now of a scarcity mindset. I read these comments from people

0:52.4

talking about their level of disillusionment, feelings that even

0:56.7

if they did leave the house to go and meet people, you know, there's no good people out

1:00.6

there anyway, or living in this place of either numbness or fear, this sense that nothing

1:08.0

good is going to happen. There's a side effect to this scarcity.

1:13.3

Even when we meet someone we like, that's the crazy part. You would think that, you know,

1:18.9

this scarcity is just about never meeting anyone you like. But it's actually worse than that.

1:24.0

Because now I feel like when people do meet someone they like, they can't even enjoy it.

1:30.3

Because they're so afraid it's going to go away. And if it does go away, I could spend another

1:34.8

year or years waiting for the next great thing to come along because there's so few of them out

1:40.9

there. People aren't even enjoying the thing when it's in front of them because they're terrified.

1:46.6

We get these feelings of desperation that we don't want it to go away.

1:51.0

We don't want this person to now leave us or get unattracted to us.

1:55.2

So we're now trying to say everything right and we're trying to make sure nothing goes

1:59.0

wrong with it.

2:00.0

We start to worry about

2:02.0

you know controlling what they're doing. Where are they right now? Who are they with? Could they be

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