with Joan Nwosu
THE MIDLIFE EDIT PODCAST
Losing Yourself in Love: Who Are You Trying to Be?
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION
The Relationship Ghostwriter
Before we ever choose a partner, we’ve already heard plenty about what love should look like.
From our families. From religion. From movies where the wedding is the ending and nobody has to figure out whose turn it is to do the dishes.
Those lessons can follow us into relationships without us realizing it. In this episode, we explore how to recognize those inherited scripts and ask whether they still reflect what we want.
IN THIS EPISODE
Who you are when you’re single versus who you become in a relationship
Saying yes to someone else while repeatedly saying no to yourself
Chemistry, compatibility, and what Joan calls conscious alignment
Dating in midlife without rushing to make someone your person
The relationships we post online versus the ones we live behind closed doors
Making room for the woman you’re becoming within an existing marriage
Joan’s Human Design approach to understanding how people give and receive love
MEET THE GUEST
Joan Nwosu
Joan Nwosu is an author, relationship coach, and host of the Love By Design podcast. Her work explores relationship patterns and how people make decisions about love.
In The New Love Languages, she draws on Human Design to offer her framework for reflecting on how people give, receive, and interpret love..
A little something to take with you
What have you stopped making room for to keep a relationship working?
Maybe it’s an opinion you’ve learned to swallow. An interest you miss. A plan you keep putting off.
Do you still want it?
You’re allowed to ask.
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