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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of this episode about love?
Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode of this podcast. This is a replay of an episode that I did with my wife just over a year ago where we actually talk about love.
And seeing that it is Valentine's Day today when this comes out, I thought it'd be really good for us to talk about love. And my wife, Lauren, and I, we talk about our own personal definitions of what love is. We talk about in this episode the difference of what love is versus being in love. So like what it's like to love somebody versus being in love with somebody.
We talk about the journey that we have both been on, especially Lauren and her self-love journey where she used to have a really negative self-talk and how she learned to love herself more and accept herself more and how that changed many aspects of herself and her world. We also talk about
uh vulnerability in a relationship how to break down emotional walls and also how to have empathy and understanding for other people and to be able to love other people even people that you're not in a romantic relationship with and how to have empathy and understanding for other people as well and how to love other people even ones that you're not in a romantic relationship with
And then last, we talk about how to encourage your partner to grow and to evolve and to become better so that you can both grow and evolve in your relationship as well. So in this special Valentine's Day, this is the episode of What is Love with my wife, Lauren. Hope you enjoy it. I have a special guest with me back for round two. I have my wife, Lauren, who's going to be with me today.
And we're going to be talking about what is love. This is going to be a deep, deep conversation. And Lauren and I are going to give our perspectives, which feel right for us, but doesn't mean that it's internationally right for every single person.
Yeah. It doesn't mean it is the answer. It's just ours from where we're currently standing.
Sure. Yeah. And so, so Lauren, welcome to the podcast again. Nice to see you. Thanks. We're recording this on the same day. So we're in the same clothes for those of you guys that are watching us on YouTube. We're wearing the same thing because it's the same day. But we're going to talk about love. And this is a topic that I think is really good to dive into. And I can't talk.
I mean, I could talk about it by myself, but it makes a lot more sense if I have my wife, who I've been with for over 10 years, who has helped me get better at discovering and figuring out what love is.
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Chapter 2: What are the personal definitions of love discussed?
passion and even whether it's like intimately or sexually like you want that with them too right because i don't want that with everybody but being in love with somebody that's such a beautiful part of the human experience is the intimacy and that i feel like is another added component of being in love with someone that's something else you want to experience with them
Yeah, I would agree with you on a lot of that. And the thing that I had said to you that has over the past couple of months kind of matured in my mind, if I started to get deeper into it, is I think that there's definitely a lot of people that I love. But I think when you're in love with somebody, I think there's an aspect of realizing that there are parts of myself that
From childhood, from growing up, from other relationships and heartbreaks that has not been fully healed. And you make me feel safe enough to be able to work on those things with you.
And I think that that's what I've come to realize is that I think that, and I was in, we were in LA last week and I was, I was on Matthew Hussey's podcast and he, you know, has a podcast called Love Life and he is a dating coach and stuff. And we were talking about this and I said, I think that one of the highest reasons for being in a relationship with somebody is I'm working on myself and
I'm trying to love and accept myself even more and trying to become a more evolved version of myself. But I think that there's still some aspects of myself for most people where I can like, when someone's working on self-love, like they can get, if they're working really hard, like 95% there, but there's still about 5% where it's like,
Uh, yeah, but if they only knew how, whatever I am, then maybe they won't accept me. And so a lot of people don't get fully, truly vulnerable with somebody because they think if she only knew this about me, she wouldn't want to be with me if he only knew this about me. And so they, they open up almost fully, but they don't fully open up.
i think when you're like truly fully in love with somebody is when you can say here's all of me and i feel safe to be vulnerable because vulnerable if you look at the actual root word of the word vulnerable it's vonar which means in greek um to be injured so like open to be injured in some sort of way yeah i think it's about like even if you're somebody who's working hardcore on yourself of loving yourself accepting yourself you'll get like 95 there and sometimes we need to see somebody else
accept all of us and still love us for us to be able to go, yeah, maybe I can love that extra 5% of myself. And I think that sometimes just having that person reflect love for who we are and accept us and not try to change us.
Um, that person, and it's one of the highest senses of what we can be in a relationship for is that person can help us heal ourselves by showing us what it looks like to accept and love ourselves.
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Chapter 3: How does self-love influence relationships?
you know how you been and he's like I'm in love and they're like oh with who and he's like I'm not in love with anybody I mean I'm in a state of love and so what I think it is is that when you're with somebody who you are in love with is they bring out a state of you that exists inside of you that's been there forever that might just have been dormant for a very long time and they make you realize that you don't have to have your walls up you don't have to feel unsafe and
You don't have to feel like there's something wrong with you, but we can be in a state of love together. And anybody I think can bring out love for you. And you can, you don't have to be like, I'm in love with you, but I can be in a state of love and try to bring that love to anyone that I go and I meet.
But being with you and seeing you accept me and me accepting myself through you accepting me too, makes me go, you know what? What if I'm just in a state of love more? And when I go and I, you know, the cashier asked me how my day's doing. I try to bring that state of love to try to impact him or her. Not so I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm in love with him.
But it's like, I just want to bring a state of love to them, which maybe impacts them and changes their day in some sort of way. And they can bring it to another person.
Yeah. I mean, how, how amazing is that?
Yeah. It's quite amazing.
That's sweet. Yeah.
And we will be right back. And now back to the show. I'm curious your thoughts on it. The thoughts on being vulnerable, because this is something that we've worked on together, where I had trouble with being vulnerable. You definitely had trouble with being vulnerable. But my even more trouble with being vulnerable made you have more trouble with being vulnerable.
So I'm curious your thoughts on how it's progressed for you, how it's changed through our relationship with the aspect of just being able to be truly vulnerable with me.
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