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I Can't Love You the Way You Want Me To

2025/4/14
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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
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The episode explores a couple's communication issues and emotional scars from the past, leading to an endless cycle of blame, defensiveness, and attack. Esther Perel helps them identify their patterns of escalation and break the cycle. They discuss their different love languages and the challenges of understanding each other's needs.
  • Recurring phrase: 'You can't love me the way I want to be loved'
  • Couple's communication patterns involve blame, defensiveness, and attack.
  • Differing love languages create misunderstandings.
  • The importance of acknowledging the other person's feelings is highlighted.

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Their relationship is on the edge. They're grappling with communication issues and the emotional scars from their past. And they're trapped. Trapped in an endless cycle of blame, defensiveness, and attack. Esther tries to help them notice their patterns of escalation and break the cycle they keep finding themselves in.

Topic - Conflict & Polarization

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