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Brendan O'Connor

👤 Speaker
5464 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

I'm 60 now.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

Yeah.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

So she would have been a writer if she was her own now.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

You've always written a bit about age and you're skirting on it now.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

You're 70 years old.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

So any observations from the front line of starting to get into it?

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

Absolutely.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

That's not interpreting what I'm saying there at all.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

What I'm saying is that boundaries are a healthy respect for yourself and for others, right?

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

Because boundaries do get used and they get weaponised and people... Because, you know, they cut people off and they just, like, restrict all contact and all that before you even know what's happened.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

That's not a healthy boundary.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

That's a power.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

That's a power play there.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

That's not a boundary, right?

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

And that's about teaching you how you interact with me in a way that's toxic.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

Let's be honest.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

Right.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

That's that's not what I'm saying.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

I'm saying healthy boundaries about respecting yourself.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

They're not this because we are living in the age of this hyper individualistic kind of idea.