240 - What Our Parents Taught Us About Love
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Kathy O'Connell reflects on her parents' long-lasting marriage and its impact on her views about love and relationships, especially in the context of dating with a disability.
Register here for the upcoming free workshop on May 12, The Real Work of Dating with Disability: What No One Else Is Teaching. I'll be reviewing how to use a skill set approach to dating with a disability. The workshop will be geared toward professionals but anyone is welcome to join. Today will be more of a personal episode as the day this podcast publishes, is my parents' 75th wedding anniversary. Now they have both been gone for several years and I'm sure they're having a heavenly celebration. But the milestone of 75 years has given me pause to reflect on how we desire or certainly not desire certain relationships based on what we see in our parents' relationship. A Love That Lasted 65 Years My parents were married 65 years when my father died. That is such an unfathomable amount of time for most of us to be committed to just one person. Yet when my dad passed, my mother in her grieving process said to me, "I just wanted more time with him." Can you imagine? In reality, though, my parents had a genuinely happy marriage and just really liked being with the other. I remember growing up having a friend comment that my parents did everything together…
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