ENCORE Real Love Doesn't Ask You To Disappear
About this episode
Lisa Carpenter unpacks the true meaning of unconditional love and its implications on personal identity and relationships.
We’ve been sold a story about unconditional love that sounds beautiful on the surface and quietly costs us everything underneath. Stay no matter what. Forgive everything. Hold it together. Don’t make it about you. In this episode, I’m unpacking what unconditional love actually means, where it belongs, and where it doesn’t. Because love and relationships are not the same thing, and confusing them is one of the most common ways that deeply loving, deeply generous people end up completely losing themselves. This conversation came out of a recent client call and kept coming up as I dug deeper with others. So many people right now are reevaluating love after infidelity, divorce, or simply waking up one day and realizing they’ve been so devoted to the relationship they forgot to stay devoted to themselves. What we cover in this episode: What unconditional love actually means and the one relationship where it genuinely belongs Why acceptance is not the same as tolerance, and how confusing them keeps you stuck in dynamics that drain you The difference between loving someone’s humanity and having conditions on how the relationship functions How ”I’ll stay no matter what” stops being…
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