Brené Brown

He likes you so much more than you like you.

It must be terrible.

I was like, fuck you, man.

You're fired.

That's what I do.

So I'm going to give you one of my tells.

If I do a really high-pitched, what?

That means I'm looking for my purse and I know where the door is.

I just kept thinking, what do you mean?

He said, it's got to be very uncomfortable to be with someone who sees you and really knows you and loves you so much when you have not found a way to see you and love you so much.

It's got to be disconcerting.

what an asshole, man.

Like, wow.

And it was true.

I had to get to this point where I was like, maybe I should like me as much as he likes me and then make a better decision about whether this is going to work or not.

When you grow up,

and pissed off or shut down are your two emotional opportunities.

In Atlas of the Heart, I write about 87 emotions that I think are important to understand because the limits of our language are the limits of our world.

When you have two buckets of

then everything must go in those.