What MEN and WOMEN have to do in order TO LOVE: how to get better at loving

What are the challenges of love for both men and women?

—Both men and women struggle with different aspects of love, leading to toxic behaviors and broken relationships.
How does love lead to toxic behaviors?

—Love can lead to toxic behaviors when individuals struggle with the complexities of the emotion, causing them to act in harmful ways towards themselves and others.
What are the common struggles in relationships?

—Common struggles in relationships include communication issues, trust issues, and differing expectations, all of which can lead to broken relationships.
How can toxic behaviors be addressed in relationships?

—Toxic behaviors in relationships can be addressed through open communication, seeking professional help, and working on personal growth and self-awareness.
What are the key factors in maintaining a healthy relationship?

—Key factors in maintaining a healthy relationship include effective communication, mutual respect, trust, and a willingness to work through challenges together.

💔 Most people think they already know how to love, they don't. Love is an incredibly high thing and few people are capable of doing it in their present state.
💔 Women's love can be toxic when mixed with possessiveness, materialism, jealousy, control, pride, delusion, martyrdom, deceit, and greed, leading to broken relationships.
🌱 Men's challenge with respect to love is like a tree, starting as soft and vulnerable saplings in childhood.
🌱 Men need to armor themselves and fight for their right to exist in order to grow into mature adults, just like a sapling becoming a tree.
💔 Men need to get hard emotionally in order to give and receive love, as hardness isn't optional for them.
💬 Women wish men would open up more, be more vulnerable, and share their feelings.

00:00 💡 Men and women face unique challenges in their capacity to love, and can all learn to love better.
00:57 Water is always pure, it's the impurities in the liquid that make it dirty and dangerous to drink.
01:37 💡 Women need to filter out impurities in their love to prevent toxic relationships and loneliness, while men need to be open to receiving pure love.
03:24 🌳 Men and women have different challenges when it comes to love, and the vulnerability of childhood is crucial to survival.
04:23 🌱 Men need to toughen up and fight for their place in society in order to grow and become men, just like a sapling needs to armor itself and fight for sunlight to become a tree.
05:52 💡 Men need to fight for their place in the world and get emotionally "hard" in order to give and receive love, but they can become too hardened to other emotions.
07:22 🌳 Men need to be firm yet supple in order to effectively give and receive love, while women wish for men to be more open and vulnerable.
08:28 🔑 Men and women need to embrace different qualities in order to love and be loved, with men needing to toughen up and then soften, and women needing to filter out impurities from their emotions.

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