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Speaker 1: The healthiest, longest lasting relationships are based on peace. Pleasure

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Speaker 1: may start relationships, peace continues relationships. I saw a quote

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Speaker 1: the other day that said, if your home is a

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Speaker 1: place of peace, you've broken the cycle. The number one

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Speaker 1: health and wellness podcast, Jay Setty Jay Shetty Z, Hey everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to On Purpose. I'm so so happy to

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Speaker 1: be with you. It's your host, Jay Shetty, and I

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Speaker 1: couldn't be more grateful that you tuned in today, especially

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Speaker 1: to this episode all about the reasons why love is

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Speaker 1: not enough and what to focus on more in dating

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Speaker 1: and relationships. If you're someone who's been trying to fall

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Speaker 1: in love, trying to find love, looking for love, this

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Speaker 1: episode is for you. If you're someone who's kind of

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Speaker 1: falling in and out of love, trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: whether you're still in love with the person, this episode

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Speaker 1: is for you. And if you're one of those people

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Speaker 1: that had to walk away from love, this episode is

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Speaker 1: for you now. I was thinking, as I was reflecting

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Speaker 1: on this topic about that old game that I think

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Speaker 1: I used to watch people play in primary school, elementary school,

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Speaker 1: where someone would grab a daisy and the game would

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Speaker 1: go he loves me, He loves me not? And I

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Speaker 1: was looking this up on the internet and he was

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Speaker 1: talking about how this is a game of French origin

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Speaker 1: in which one person seeks to determine whether the object

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Speaker 1: of their affection returns that affection. Fancy way of saying

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Speaker 1: he loves me, he loves me not. Now, what was

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Speaker 1: interesting about that is this idea that we are constantly,

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Speaker 1: since we're young, trained to ask that question, do they

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Speaker 1: love me? Do they love me yet? Are they in

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Speaker 1: love with me? When? Will they be in love with me?

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Speaker 1: When will they tell me they love me? And the

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Speaker 1: same back them? Am I ready to love them? But

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Speaker 1: here's what I want to ask you in this episode.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt you loved someone but knew they

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Speaker 1: weren't right for you. Let me say that again. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever felt you loved someone but knew they weren't

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Speaker 1: right for you? How many times have you been in

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Speaker 1: that position before? Or you love someone but they weren't

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Speaker 1: good to you. How many of you have experienced that

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Speaker 1: where you love someone, you had strong feelings for someone,

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Speaker 1: but they weren't good to you. Maybe you're in that

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Speaker 1: position right now, and I'm so happy that you're listening

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Speaker 1: to this episode or maybe you love them, but you

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Speaker 1: didn't trust them. How many of you know someone who's

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Speaker 1: dating someone right now where they say they love them,

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Speaker 1: interesting about all of this is we we often hear

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Speaker 1: our friends, our family members, people we love make excuses

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Speaker 1: but you know, sometimes I wonder why he doesn't care

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Speaker 1: or she loves me, but sometimes I wonder whether she's

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Speaker 1: just with me for fill in the blank. Here's the reality.

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Speaker 1: If they loved you, they're call. If they loved you,

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Speaker 1: they'd care. If they loved you, they'd ask. If they

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Speaker 1: loved you, you'd know. And often our feelings of love

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Speaker 1: for someone make us forget that love is not enough,

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Speaker 1: because what we really want is not just someone to

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Speaker 1: feel loved, makes us feel cared for, makes us feel seen, heard, understood,

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Speaker 1: and someone that we do that back to. We don't

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Speaker 1: someone who lives like they do. We want the actions,

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Speaker 1: is done enough, it's not because I want to be negative.

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Speaker 1: It's not because I want to put it down on love.

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Speaker 1: It's because so many of us place love on this pedestal,

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Speaker 1: and we believe that love is enough because we've been

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Speaker 1: told that love is all we need. Right, That's what

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Speaker 1: want to talk today about what we should focus on,

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Speaker 1: what we should notice, what we should amplify in our relationships,

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Speaker 1: in order to make sure that we're not misled by

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Speaker 1: what we think is love. Partly, one of the challenges

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Speaker 1: have one word for love. But the Greeks had seven

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Speaker 1: Love was far more of a detailed, complex topic, and

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Speaker 1: us forget the importance of values. How many times have

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Speaker 1: someone loved us, they would never let us do that.

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Speaker 1: That wouldn't be the way they'd want us to act.

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Speaker 1: And so values are such a critical part of the

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Speaker 1: love setup. This is one of the reasons why when

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Speaker 1: first things we built was a value based assessment. This

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Speaker 1: was to help you with a quiz to understand your

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Speaker 1: they may even share similar values. If you want to

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Speaker 1: check that out, you can go to match dot com,

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Speaker 1: forward slash Ja. And that was so important to me

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Speaker 1: because I wanted us to recognize that love is not enough.

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Speaker 1: If you couldn't name your partner's top three values and

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Speaker 1: you that love is not enough. What is it that

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Speaker 1: your partner would never let you sacrifice? What is something

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Speaker 1: deep value to you. For example, for me, I know

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Speaker 1: that Radi one of her biggest values is family. And

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Speaker 1: so whether it's her visiting London, whether it's her wanting

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Speaker 1: forget our values. And in love, we want people to

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Speaker 1: sound like love. It sounds like manipulation. It sounds like control.

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Speaker 1: But love can often make you think you're doing things

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Speaker 1: Are you aware of how they stack? I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of us deprioritize our values because we don't know them,

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Speaker 1: This second one is probably the most common one, but

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Speaker 1: it's the most avoidable because of love. Love makes you

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Speaker 1: forget patterns of behavior. Sometimes the wrong people will say

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Speaker 1: of us let me just say that all again. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: mistake after mistake, and you go, oh, but they love me. See,

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Speaker 1: but we love each other. It's okay, we love each other. Right,

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Speaker 1: word patterns because people are patterns. We're all patterns, right.

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Speaker 1: focusing on actual effort, on actual action. If you're constantly

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Speaker 1: have to ask yourself how much are you justifying? How

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Speaker 1: having limited right, Sometimes we can just have godly expectations

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Speaker 1: can't expect godly patterns, but am I just seeing a

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Speaker 1: not enough because it makes you forget emotional maturity. This

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Speaker 1: is what's fascinating about this love is not enough statement

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Speaker 1: engage in emotionally healthy conversations? Do you believe that this

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Speaker 1: person is emotionally mature when it comes to managing their

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Speaker 1: maturity is the ability to understand, manage, and express emotions

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