94. What Is Love, Really? Soulmates, Relationships & Why We Choose Each Other | CIWIHWMF series
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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 this episode of How To Battle, Dan Olschwang and I explore one of the deepest questions I wish I could have asked my father:
What is love, and what is the purpose of relationships in our lives?
This conversation goes far beyond romance.
We 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?
I also share parts of my relationship with Shirin, how we met while volunteering with foster children, why I initially resisted the relationship, the connection I couldn't explain, and how healing individually helped us eventually become stronger together.
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.
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