Nobody ever thinks he or she will end up in a love-less marriage, much less an abusive relationship with serious physical abuse. So why do so many people end up with partners who are either abusive or who can’t provide what they really need?
Much of it is because we are so desperate for love when we’re seeking love that we’re easily fooled by love’s closest counterfeit — and that counterfeit love is always toxic in the end.
Preview of new week’s show: We often act as though we have forever to do the things we want to do in life, and we act we though we have forever to fix the relationships we’ve broken that we hope to repair one day.
My father taught me that. He had three children who once adored him. He had three different women who had loved him dearly over the years. But when he died, he was alone. The tragedy of his life is that he couldn’t repair the relationships he had destroyed. We’ll take a look at why we often delay repairing the relationships we need — and what we can do about it — next week on Love and Hope.
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