Not Accept Our Differences

Perhaps one of the loneliest existential questions we can ask is whether or not we can ever truly be known by someone.  There’s grief in there, when we realize that this desire can never be fully met.  Sometimes we avoid or deny this truth, which is what this week’s question touches on:  “Why doesn’t my partner accept our differences?”  Certainly, we can bond over our similarities.  That’s easy.  But the real adventure and the real risk is in our differences.  Perhaps the irony lies in that by simply being curious about our differences, for a mere moment and through understanding, we can have a shared reality together.  As with many things in life, the obstacle is the path.  In this episode, we dig into it all--our neurological pathways that drive us away or toward, the “you-turns” we can take to really connect through difference, and how this ripples outward into every relationship we touch.

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