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Jonathan Fields

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3014 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

I need to understand my attachment patterns and what I've been exposed to.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

I need to understand the cultural imprints that have been on me.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

And dot, dot, dot.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

I can't go out and find love or do the thing or even try until I actually do all this work.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

I don't think that's what you're saying, right?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Yeah, I mean, that makes a lot of sense to me, which brings up another curiosity, right?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

So if we have these different things that are sort of invisibly influencing the way that we seek partnership and also step into and actively engage in the process and the experience, it sounds so technical when I say that.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

It's like...

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Let's just talk about that for a second, though, right?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Because this has got to be one of the things that I would imagine gets brought to you, too.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

People are like, I just want to fall in love.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

I want the feeling.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

I want that thing.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

And does it have to be this sort of technical, mechanical, step-by-step intellectual process for me to actually find the thing that I so dearly want?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Or where's the dream part of this?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Where's the softness to it?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Yeah, it was, I feel like it's really easy to sort of like go down this slippery slope of saying, we can break this down to a highly mechanical process.

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

But like, there's a voice inside so many people that say, like, isn't this supposed to be just more, more intuitive, more emotional, more soft, more alive with electricity?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Or is it a yes and thing?

Good Life Project
Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

There's a stat that I've heard.