The Person You Love Is Not the Person You Imagined, with Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
Depth Over NoiseShow Notes
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, on why we fall in love with people who trigger our deepest wounds, the hidden reason couples struggle with difference, and how learning to truly see another person can transform a relationship.
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt have spent more than four decades asking one of the most consequential questions in human relationships: Why can two people love each other deeply and still struggle to stay connected? In this episode of Depth Over Noise, Harville and Helen join Dr. Tony Nader to explore why we are often drawn to partners who activate our deepest unmet needs, why trying to change the person we love creates the power struggle at the heart of so many relationships, and why conflict does not necessarily mean we chose the wrong person. They discuss the universal wound of feeling invisible, the practice of “zero negativity, ” how dialogue can regulate two people in conflict, and what it means to create safety in the “space between. ” It is ultimately a conversation about caring at its most intimate: learning to see another human being not as the person we need them to become, but as the person who is actually standing in front of us.
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