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Most of us learned about love by accident, from movies, our parents, and relationships that taught us more about what we didn't want than what we did. But love isn't one-size-fits-all. This podcast brings you a new perspective on love every episode: the couples therapist, the ER doctor, the grandparents, the wedding planner. Borrow what resonates, leave what doesn't, and build a definition of love that's actually yours. If you enjoy the show please hit a follow and review the show! That's a small way you can help us carry on doing this, thank you for listening!

  1. 1 hr ago

    The Romeo and Juliet Fantasy That Ruins Real Love

    A lifelong romantic who built vision boards of red-carpet weddings and prayed for the Romeo-and-Juliet kind of love explains why the relationship that looked like "couple goals" from the outside felt like a campaign from the inside, what a teddy bear's baptism taught her about being loved without having to beg, and the lightness she felt three days after it all ended. What makes love real, she's decided, has nothing to do with how good you look on paper. Song: EtherealComposer: Punch DeckWebsite: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M9CX5HWSw25k5QL3FkDEALicense: Creative Commons (BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com

    30 min

  2. 3 days ago

    Married 21 Years: Don't Create a Safe Space

    Timm Chiusano, who's been married 21 years, explains why the instinct to protect your relationship, building a safe little room around it and shutting the doors, might be the exact thing slowly killing it, what a cat that wandered through his Brooklyn house had to do with it, and the quiet moment his wife told him he was wrong that changed everything. What makes love last, he's decided, has nothing to do with how safe you keep it. Song: EtherealComposer: Punch DeckWebsite: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M9CX5HWSw25k5QL3FkDEALicense: Creative Commons (BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com

    42 min

  3. 5 days ago

    Why Trying To Be Loved Is Pushing People Away

    A lifelong people pleaser who befriended everyone from her classmates to the nurse drawing her blood explains why being liked by everyone left her feeling known by no one, what a $3,000 trip to Iceland she didn't even want had to do with it, and the quiet thing she now reaches for instead of grand gestures. What makes love real, she's decided, has nothing to do with how much you're willing to sacrifice. Song: Ethereal Composer: Punch Deck Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M9CX5HWSw25k5QL3FkDEA License: Creative Commons (BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com

    25 min

  4. 17 Jun

    Gary Vee: The Kind Of Love That Decides Your Whole Life

    A man raised on the kind of unconditional love most people never get, from a mother who survived losing her own mom at five and a father imprisoned in Soviet Russia, explains why money, fame, and winning will never make people actually love you, the uncomfortable reason the people surrounding the rich and powerful don't really love them, and the one quiet thing almost everyone gets backwards about how love is earned.

    8 min

  5. 15 Jun

    Why Grand Gestures Are Actually Red Flags

    A woman raised by Filipino immigrant parents who never said "I love you" out loud explains why a partner's most generous gestures can land as rejection, what her dad's Elmo phone calls had to do with it, and the quiet thing she now looks for that most people overlook. What makes love last, she's decided, has nothing to do with how much someone is willing to give.

    32 min

  6. 10 Jun

    Why You Stay When You Know You Should Leave

    A self-described lover girl who gives people 28 chances before walking away explains how one breakup left her in bed for weeks, why her mom had to tell her the same fairy tale over and over before it finally clicked, and the moment she realized she'd spent three years begging for something a near-stranger gave her after being asked once. The thing that changed how she loves wasn't getting over him, and it wasn't finding someone new, it was noticing who had been showing up for her the entire time.

    40 min

  7. 7 Jun

    You Marry the Same Person Three Times

    A woman who stayed married 35 years explains why she's actually been married three times to the same man, a sweet beginning, a decade that felt like war, and the marriage they have now. The turning point that ended the fighting wasn't him changing, and it wasn't a grand gesture, it was a small, almost embarrassing realization about why she was angry in the first place.

    43 min

  8. 31 May

    What The Bachelor Taught Me About Conversations We Avoid

    A woman who spent her days as the producer of The Bachelor asking strangers the deepest questions about love explains why she couldn't ask those same questions in her own five-year relationship, and how she learned that wanting to truly know someone is the one thing you can't fake.

    39 min
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Most of us learned about love by accident, from movies, our parents, and relationships that taught us more about what we didn't want than what we did. But love isn't one-size-fits-all. This podcast brings you a new perspective on love every episode: the couples therapist, the ER doctor, the grandparents, the wedding planner. Borrow what resonates, leave what doesn't, and build a definition of love that's actually yours. If you enjoy the show please hit a follow and review the show! That's a small way you can help us carry on doing this, thank you for listening!

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  • Creator
    preston rakovsky
  • Years Active
    2k
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © preston rakovsky
  • Show Website
    the prestonrack show

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