The School of Life | How to Love without fear @theschooloflifetv | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
We regularly get into difficulties in love because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love. We imagine we’re grown up, we don’t want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be, we don’t want to see the always susceptible and sensitive child beneath the impressive adult…
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“We regularly get into difficulties in love because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love.
We imagine we’re grown up, we don’t want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be, we don’t want to see the always susceptible and sensitive child beneath the impressive adult.
And so, in the face of ‘small things’ that have undeniably hurt us (a missing warm comment here, a lack of touch there), we go numb instead, we silently and swiftly pull up the drawbridge, we unconsciously prepare to recriminate, we tell ourselves that we have a lot of work to do and should spend more time by ourselves. The last thing we can acknowledge is that we might be sad, confused and secretly furious…”
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Produced in collaboration with:
Mike Booth
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Title animation produced in collaboration with
Graeme Probert
gpmotion.co.uk
We regularly get into difficulties in love because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love. We imagine we’re grown up, we don’t want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be, we don’t want to see the always susceptible and sensitive child beneath the impressive adult…
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FURTHER READING
You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://9qq0.short.gy/BFuR8G
“We regularly get into difficulties in love because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love.
We imagine we’re grown up, we don’t want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be, we don’t want to see the always susceptible and sensitive child beneath the impressive adult.
And so, in the face of ‘small things’ that have undeniably hurt us (a missing warm comment here, a lack of touch there), we go numb instead, we silently and swiftly pull up the drawbridge, we unconsciously prepare to recriminate, we tell ourselves that we have a lot of work to do and should spend more time by ourselves. The last thing we can acknowledge is that we might be sad, confused and secretly furious…”
MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE
Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist:
bit.ly/TSOLrelationships
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Feel free to follow us at the links below:
Facebook: facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon
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CREDITS
Produced in collaboration with:
Mike Booth
youtube.com/user/somegreybloke
Title animation produced in collaboration with
Graeme Probert
gpmotion.co.uk
