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Anna Runkle

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
644 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

The most beautiful, the most amazing. Everything she touches, there's a light coming out of her. But there's this other kind that I see where they want to save a woman. They'll ruin a perfectly good marriage because of some woman. Yeah, I had a letter from a guy. He saw a woman unconscious on the sidewalk. And he called 911 and he stayed with her. And then he went to the hospital.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

The most beautiful, the most amazing. Everything she touches, there's a light coming out of her. But there's this other kind that I see where they want to save a woman. They'll ruin a perfectly good marriage because of some woman. Yeah, I had a letter from a guy. He saw a woman unconscious on the sidewalk. And he called 911 and he stayed with her. And then he went to the hospital.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And the next thing you know, his whole life became about her and what was possible there. So you can see it's not real. And in that case, with people who are fragile like that, it's the same thing. We have an ethical responsibility not to mess with their emotions. In her case, she was a drug addict. She was unconscious because she needed Narcan or something.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And the next thing you know, his whole life became about her and what was possible there. So you can see it's not real. And in that case, with people who are fragile like that, it's the same thing. We have an ethical responsibility not to mess with their emotions. In her case, she was a drug addict. She was unconscious because she needed Narcan or something.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And the next thing you know, his whole life became about her and what was possible there. So you can see it's not real. And in that case, with people who are fragile like that, it's the same thing. We have an ethical responsibility not to mess with their emotions. In her case, she was a drug addict. She was unconscious because she needed Narcan or something.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Oh, about that guy.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Oh, about that guy.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Oh, about that guy.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

I mean, obviously it can, but I don't think that's necessary because people get this way over people they've never had sex with. You know, they can only imagine. And so that's not a necessary component.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

I mean, obviously it can, but I don't think that's necessary because people get this way over people they've never had sex with. You know, they can only imagine. And so that's not a necessary component.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

I mean, obviously it can, but I don't think that's necessary because people get this way over people they've never had sex with. You know, they can only imagine. And so that's not a necessary component.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

But I do think, you know, I'm sort of in the camp of for women even more than men, you have to guard that thing that happens, you know, with your whole neurobiology around sex and oxytocin and orgasm because it will bond you with somebody whether they're right for you or not, whether you like them or not. It just will... throw you over a cliff, you're under a spell and now you must deal with it.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

But I do think, you know, I'm sort of in the camp of for women even more than men, you have to guard that thing that happens, you know, with your whole neurobiology around sex and oxytocin and orgasm because it will bond you with somebody whether they're right for you or not, whether you like them or not. It just will... throw you over a cliff, you're under a spell and now you must deal with it.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

But I do think, you know, I'm sort of in the camp of for women even more than men, you have to guard that thing that happens, you know, with your whole neurobiology around sex and oxytocin and orgasm because it will bond you with somebody whether they're right for you or not, whether you like them or not. It just will... throw you over a cliff, you're under a spell and now you must deal with it.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And if you're not good at getting out of relationships, you just kind of cost yourself years of happiness.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And if you're not good at getting out of relationships, you just kind of cost yourself years of happiness.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And if you're not good at getting out of relationships, you just kind of cost yourself years of happiness.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Well, the best advice anybody ever gave me was that the definition of dating is to find out who somebody is and whether you would like to get close to them. But dating kind of, in our culture today, it means having sex with. Oh, I'm dating this person. It means having sex with. It could be casual. It could be, well, if it were more than that, you might use different words.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Well, the best advice anybody ever gave me was that the definition of dating is to find out who somebody is and whether you would like to get close to them. But dating kind of, in our culture today, it means having sex with. Oh, I'm dating this person. It means having sex with. It could be casual. It could be, well, if it were more than that, you might use different words.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Well, the best advice anybody ever gave me was that the definition of dating is to find out who somebody is and whether you would like to get close to them. But dating kind of, in our culture today, it means having sex with. Oh, I'm dating this person. It means having sex with. It could be casual. It could be, well, if it were more than that, you might use different words.