{"id":102386,"date":"2023-05-17T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=102386"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:38:45","slug":"how-to-learn-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-learn-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Learn to Love as an Emotionally Mature Person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How do our parents affect our adult relationships? How can you learn to love in an emotionally mature way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll need to do some inner work to become someone who can <\/em>love mindfully\u2014an emotionally mature person. David Richo explains how your parents\u2019 love shaped your ability to love<\/a> mindfully\u2014and how to mature emotionally by healing any childhood wounds<\/a> you may have sustained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading if you want to know how to learn to love and not let the past affect you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Where Your Definition of Love Comes From<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To understand how to learn to love, you need to know where you got your definition of love<\/a> from. According to Richo, the love you received from your parents as a child set the stage for your adult love life. <\/strong>If your parents always loved you mindfully, then you\u2019re set to become an emotionally mature adult: someone who knows how to give and receive<\/a> mindful love<\/a>. On the other hand, if your parents ever made you feel hurt or underloved, you sustained childhood wounds that can hold you back from becoming emotionally mature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richo explains that these childhood wounds can <\/em>interfere with your ability to love mindfully in adulthood in three ways: You accept inadequate love, you expect your partner to fill a parental role, and\/or you\u2019re afraid of intimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Ways to Mature Emotionally<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now we’ll look at two ways to mature emotionally so you can learn to love fully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#1. How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Grow Emotionally<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Richo says that you can overcome your childhood wounds and reach emotional maturity<\/a> by learning to mindfully love yourself.<\/em><\/strong> Loving yourself leads to maturity because it gives you a strong sense of self-worth<\/a> and a sense of responsibility for meeting your own needs. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: This process\u2014giving yourself the love your parents couldn\u2019t\u2014is commonly known as reparenting yourself. <\/em>Reparenting yourself involves, essentially,  treating yourself like a  parent should<\/em> treat their child: keeping them safe, loved, and equipped with the skills and support they need to thrive. As you take care of this \u201cinner child,\u201d you\u2019ll heal her wounds\u2014and will stop repeating unhealthy patterns and behaviors that stemmed from an impulse to soothe your inner child\u2019s pain.<\/a> Instead, you\u2019ll start to make rational, adult decisions that are good <\/em>for you.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richo suggests three key self-love practices that can help you mature: recognizing your inherent lovability, setting healthy boundaries<\/a> with others, <\/em>and compassionately validating yourself<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#2. Choose the Right Partner<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According to Richo, once you\u2019ve emotionally matured and learned to love yourself, you\u2019ll be ready for a healthy relationship.<\/strong> You\u2019ll only want what\u2019s good for you\u2014so you\u2019ll take time to consider whether a new relationship would be healthy before you commit to it. As a result, you\u2019ll have stronger relationships from the get-go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take an emotionally mature approach to figuring out whether a potential partner is right for you, Richo recommends you take into account three factors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Compatibility: <\/strong>Determine whether you and your love interest have compatible values and life goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In most long-term relationships, compatibility shifts over time for two reasons: First, you\u2019re both putting your best foot forward in the early stages, so you might not notice some incompatibilities right away. Second, people change\u2014and so do their values and goals. According to some experts, relationships thrive when couples stay committed to loving each other despite changes in compatibility<\/a>\u2014so a compatible level of commitment <\/em>may be the most important thing to be on the lookout for.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Availability: <\/strong>Determine whether you and your love interest have the capacity for trust, intimacy, and commitment and whether you\u2019re located near enough to each other to sustain a relationship in person.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In long-distance relationships, it can be hard to maintain trust, communication, and intimacy;<\/a> but that doesn\u2019t mean long-distance relationships are destined to fail. Usually, it just takes some extra work to ensure both partners feel securely connected to each other.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Maturity: <\/strong>Determine whether you and your love interest are emotionally mature or willing to work on maturing together\u2014if either of you is in the throes of addiction, mentally ill, violent, or desperate for a relationship to complete you, Richo says you should prioritize resolving those issues before you start dating.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: You may feel like you need to have all <\/em>your issues figured out before you can have a healthy relationship<\/a>, but that\u2019s not the case. According to researchers, most people develop the relationship skills they need during <\/em>the course of their relationships<\/a> by practicing with their partners and giving each other room to grow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do our parents affect our adult relationships? How can you learn to love in an emotionally mature way? You’ll need to do some inner work to become someone who can love mindfully\u2014an emotionally mature person. David Richo explains how your parents\u2019 love shaped your ability to love mindfully\u2014and how to mature emotionally by healing any childhood wounds you may have sustained. 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