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Jillian Turecki

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Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

Yeah. Well, this is what we were talking about a little bit before, which is that we are their best selves in the beginning, and then we get comfortable with And then we have this unconscious belief that this person that loves us should love us no matter what.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

So even if I'm coming to the relationship consistently, and I really want to emphasize consistently because we will do this sometimes, consistently stress, moody, irritable, cold, why would you expect anyone to put up with that on a consistent basis? And relationships are what we make of them. And they need attention. And they need attention in the form of our mindfulness.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

So even if I'm coming to the relationship consistently, and I really want to emphasize consistently because we will do this sometimes, consistently stress, moody, irritable, cold, why would you expect anyone to put up with that on a consistent basis? And relationships are what we make of them. And they need attention. And they need attention in the form of our mindfulness.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

So even if I'm coming to the relationship consistently, and I really want to emphasize consistently because we will do this sometimes, consistently stress, moody, irritable, cold, why would you expect anyone to put up with that on a consistent basis? And relationships are what we make of them. And they need attention. And they need attention in the form of our mindfulness.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And that means that we're not going to be perfect, but you can't do anything all these wonderful things in the beginning, and then stop doing them and expect your relationship to be a good relationship. It's really as simple as that. And this is what people do. This is what I've never met anyone who hasn't done this. Why? It's a law of familiarity.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And that means that we're not going to be perfect, but you can't do anything all these wonderful things in the beginning, and then stop doing them and expect your relationship to be a good relationship. It's really as simple as that. And this is what people do. This is what I've never met anyone who hasn't done this. Why? It's a law of familiarity.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And that means that we're not going to be perfect, but you can't do anything all these wonderful things in the beginning, and then stop doing them and expect your relationship to be a good relationship. It's really as simple as that. And this is what people do. This is what I've never met anyone who hasn't done this. Why? It's a law of familiarity.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

We get used to something and we start to take it for granted. We think, you know, comfort is a wonderful thing in a relationship. Too much comfort often leads to the demise of a relationship. It gets so comfortable that we think, you know, it's like how a lot of us can be around family. We can regress to our seven-year-old self and be a total shit and we know we're going to be loved anyway.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

We get used to something and we start to take it for granted. We think, you know, comfort is a wonderful thing in a relationship. Too much comfort often leads to the demise of a relationship. It gets so comfortable that we think, you know, it's like how a lot of us can be around family. We can regress to our seven-year-old self and be a total shit and we know we're going to be loved anyway.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

We get used to something and we start to take it for granted. We think, you know, comfort is a wonderful thing in a relationship. Too much comfort often leads to the demise of a relationship. It gets so comfortable that we think, you know, it's like how a lot of us can be around family. We can regress to our seven-year-old self and be a total shit and we know we're going to be loved anyway.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

People do that in their romantic relationships and it's a mistake. It's a mistake to do it anyway, but it's really a mistake in your romantic relationship. So we think, you know, we do forget, and I've said this before, we forget that the person that we love is a gift and we think that they're a given. And that is just the law of familiarity.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

People do that in their romantic relationships and it's a mistake. It's a mistake to do it anyway, but it's really a mistake in your romantic relationship. So we think, you know, we do forget, and I've said this before, we forget that the person that we love is a gift and we think that they're a given. And that is just the law of familiarity.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

People do that in their romantic relationships and it's a mistake. It's a mistake to do it anyway, but it's really a mistake in your romantic relationship. So we think, you know, we do forget, and I've said this before, we forget that the person that we love is a gift and we think that they're a given. And that is just the law of familiarity.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And it's because we become unconscious and mindless in our relationships. A relationship really has... We think that you go into a cave or you go into an ashram or you do some sort of psychedelic trip, that that's the spiritual work. No, the spiritual work is in a relationship.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And it's because we become unconscious and mindless in our relationships. A relationship really has... We think that you go into a cave or you go into an ashram or you do some sort of psychedelic trip, that that's the spiritual work. No, the spiritual work is in a relationship.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And it's because we become unconscious and mindless in our relationships. A relationship really has... We think that you go into a cave or you go into an ashram or you do some sort of psychedelic trip, that that's the spiritual work. No, the spiritual work is in a relationship.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

In the honeymoon stage of a relationship, there's this illusion that all our stress goes away because this person has come into our life and we feel that euphoria and we feel so excited and it's new. And then our stress comes back. And we might put on a really brave face or we treat our coworkers great. We smile at a stranger on the street.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

In the honeymoon stage of a relationship, there's this illusion that all our stress goes away because this person has come into our life and we feel that euphoria and we feel so excited and it's new. And then our stress comes back. And we might put on a really brave face or we treat our coworkers great. We smile at a stranger on the street.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

In the honeymoon stage of a relationship, there's this illusion that all our stress goes away because this person has come into our life and we feel that euphoria and we feel so excited and it's new. And then our stress comes back. And we might put on a really brave face or we treat our coworkers great. We smile at a stranger on the street.

Modern Wisdom
#893 - Jillian Turecki - 9 Harsh Truths About How Relationships Work

And then we come home and we're like, let me just unload all my stress on you. Or we come home and we think, I don't have to actually be really that nice to you.