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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?

And so my friends were sort of all on the wrong side of the tracks. And it took me a long time to sort of find my place. And I ended up getting, you know, well-educated. And I do have friends of all types. That's a happy thing about my life.

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

And so my friends were sort of all on the wrong side of the tracks. And it took me a long time to sort of find my place. And I ended up getting, you know, well-educated. And I do have friends of all types. That's a happy thing about my life.

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

And so my friends were sort of all on the wrong side of the tracks. And it took me a long time to sort of find my place. And I ended up getting, you know, well-educated. And I do have friends of all types. That's a happy thing about my life.

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

but um it was very stigmatizing and there were a lot of things i had no idea how to do and that's one of that's one of the topics that i'm also developing i do content now but just like there needs to be an etiquette book for people who were raised feral we don't know we don't know what it's like how to be a human dot doc how to be a human yeah yeah so i have a i have a

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

but um it was very stigmatizing and there were a lot of things i had no idea how to do and that's one of that's one of the topics that i'm also developing i do content now but just like there needs to be an etiquette book for people who were raised feral we don't know we don't know what it's like how to be a human dot doc how to be a human yeah yeah so i have a i have a

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

but um it was very stigmatizing and there were a lot of things i had no idea how to do and that's one of that's one of the topics that i'm also developing i do content now but just like there needs to be an etiquette book for people who were raised feral we don't know we don't know what it's like how to be a human dot doc how to be a human yeah yeah so i have a i have a

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

Nobody, you know, everybody just assumes, you know, and you know how to do this. And so a lot of information is like, like in terms of like, how should women handle their sex lives? And they, I remember when I was like, I don't know, 19 or something.

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

Nobody, you know, everybody just assumes, you know, and you know how to do this. And so a lot of information is like, like in terms of like, how should women handle their sex lives? And they, I remember when I was like, I don't know, 19 or something.

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

Nobody, you know, everybody just assumes, you know, and you know how to do this. And so a lot of information is like, like in terms of like, how should women handle their sex lives? And they, I remember when I was like, I don't know, 19 or something.

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

And in Cosmo magazine, they were like, when you've just had a one night stand with a guy, get up, don't dwell on him, get up, brush your teeth, do some sit-ups. And then go. And I was like, okay, got it. Act like this. It was just like, it was bullshit. And it was like bad advice or another thing. I had to learn from stuff like TV. There was this commercial for the perfume Anjali.

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

And in Cosmo magazine, they were like, when you've just had a one night stand with a guy, get up, don't dwell on him, get up, brush your teeth, do some sit-ups. And then go. And I was like, okay, got it. Act like this. It was just like, it was bullshit. And it was like bad advice or another thing. I had to learn from stuff like TV. There was this commercial for the perfume Anjali.

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

And in Cosmo magazine, they were like, when you've just had a one night stand with a guy, get up, don't dwell on him, get up, brush your teeth, do some sit-ups. And then go. And I was like, okay, got it. Act like this. It was just like, it was bullshit. And it was like bad advice or another thing. I had to learn from stuff like TV. There was this commercial for the perfume Anjali.

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

Turns out it's totally resistible and weird and for them and uncomfortable.

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

Turns out it's totally resistible and weird and for them and uncomfortable.

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

Turns out it's totally resistible and weird and for them and uncomfortable.

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

I think you could call it a person addiction, but really I think it's an addiction to hope. Hope is the dope. It's hope. In theory, they want to be with the person, but the thing that gives the high is cresting over from devastation to hope again.

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

I think you could call it a person addiction, but really I think it's an addiction to hope. Hope is the dope. It's hope. In theory, they want to be with the person, but the thing that gives the high is cresting over from devastation to hope again.

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

I think you could call it a person addiction, but really I think it's an addiction to hope. Hope is the dope. It's hope. In theory, they want to be with the person, but the thing that gives the high is cresting over from devastation to hope again.

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

Or it's like people who want to suffocate when they're having sex or something. You want to get that close to death and then, ah. It's like that. It's a really unhealthy and toxic high. And it leads to bad things. It makes people alone. And so very few people are actually willing to do what it takes to stop it. A lot of people ask me. Few follow through. But you got to stop talking about it.

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

Or it's like people who want to suffocate when they're having sex or something. You want to get that close to death and then, ah. It's like that. It's a really unhealthy and toxic high. And it leads to bad things. It makes people alone. And so very few people are actually willing to do what it takes to stop it. A lot of people ask me. Few follow through. But you got to stop talking about it.