Notas del episodio
We say we love our partners. Our children. Our parents. Our friends.
But what is love, really?
And how much of what we call love was actually taught to us by our childhood, our wounds, our culture and the relationships we experienced growing up?
In the third episode of Conversations I Wish I Had With My Father, Dan and Carlos explore one of the deepest questions one could ask a father:
What is love, and what is the purpose of relationships in our lives?
This conversation goes far beyond romance.
Dan and Carlos talk about how people learn what love means, why two people can experience love completely differently, how childhood wounds affect our ability to give and receive love, why relationships can expose parts of ourselves we cannot see alone, and whether there really is such a thing as a soulmate.
Dan shares his perspective that love is something experienced through connection, an exchange that becomes deeper as two people become more open, healed and aligned.
That leads us into some uncomfortable questions.
Is “self-love” actually love?
Do soulmates really exist?
How do you know when you have found yours?
Should marriage matter, or is commitment what actually matters?
Can open relationships reach the same depth as complete commitment to one person?
What happens when one person in a relationship keeps growing and the other doesn't?
And can the person we love become one of the greatest catalysts for our own healing?
This is Conversations I Wish I Had With My Father — a series built around the questions about life, meaning, relationships, fear, purpose and the human experience that so many of us never had the opportunity to ask.
If there is a conversation you wish you could have had with your father, leave the question in the comments. It may become a future episode.
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