Why Your Relationship Isn't Working: The Hidden Trap of Expectations, Neediness & Fantasy
About this episode
The episode explores how unspoken expectations and emotional needs can undermine relationships.
Most people don't enter relationships intending to sabotage them. They come in hopeful, open, and often deeply ready for connection. But beneath that readiness is a quiet architecture—unspoken expectations, emotional needs we may not fully understand, and a version of love shaped more by imagination than reality. Over time, that architecture can start to strain the relationship itself.
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