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Lewis Howes"Love is Not Enough in Intimate Relationships!" You NEED These 3 Things As Well with Matthew Hussey
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Love Isn't Enough: Standards, Hard Conversations, Compatibility and Self-Love as Job
- Hussey explains that leaving a wrong relationship feels like blowing up your own life because identity, community, finances and fear of being alone are all entangled.
- He argues that change is very hard and usually partial, so people should be sober about whether a partner truly wants to change rather than just being annoyed that the other person is frustrated.
- Hussey and Lewis Howes discuss defining your own version of high value, avoiding ego-driven checklists, and having hard conversations early to learn whether a relationship can hold them, with Howes sharing his health, purpose, relationship priorities conversation with his partner Martha.
- Hussey lays out four levels of importance (admiration, mutual attraction, commitment, compatibility) and says love alone is not enough without compatibility and shared values.
- He closes by reframing self-love as a job of taking care of your human rather than a feeling earned through qualities, which leads you to stop putting yourself around people who treat you poorly.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasLeaving feels like detonating your own life
Hussey says when lives are intertwined through identity, community, finances or children, the one who ends it must risk a better life that hasn't materialized yet, which brings fear, grief and disappointment.
Wanting change is not the same as changing
Hussey notes change requires desire, self-awareness and sustained discipline, and usually amounts to a 5 to 10% shift, so a partner who merely resents your frustration isn't truly choosing to change.
Define high value by your own happiness, not ego
Hussey says value is subjective and that lists often read like casting calls, as with the Up in the Air example, with little about how a person makes you feel or treats you.
Don't comparison shop for chemistry
Hussey argues that spikes of anxious chase or vacation-romance intensity are different from the chemistry of a peaceful, safe relationship, like comparing a sprint to a marathon.
Hard conversations reveal whether a relationship is robust
Hussey says your life improves in proportion to the hard conversations you are willing to have, and how a partner responds shows whether the relationship can hold them; he suggests framing future goals as your own intentions rather than pressure on them.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesYour life will get better in direct proportion to the number of hard conversations you are willing to have.
— Matthew Hussey
Love isn't a feeling. We have to get out of this mindset that loving myself is a feeling I have to feel. You don't have to love yourself as a feeling. You don't even have to like yourself to love yourself.
— Matthew Hussey
Liking yourself can come later. Loving yourself starts today with the approach you take to taking care of your human.
— Matthew Hussey
But it's hard to be the one that lights the fuse that blows up your own life.
— Matthew Hussey
I always say don't comparison shop for chemistry.
— Matthew Hussey
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SPEAKERS
Matthew Hussey
guestDating and relationship coach and author of "Love Life" (lovelifebook.com).
Lewis Howes
hostHost of "The School of Greatness" podcast and interviewer on the Lewis Howes channel.
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