Episode 29
Welcome to the Healing Pod!
“We deserve more than a preprogrammed version of love”
Objectophilia, parasocial relationships, unrequited love, falling for fictional characters…this week we have Jess back (yaaaay!!!!!) and we are exploring our response on making yourself a relationship without the relationships. Also how we mess with chatGPT and try to convince it of its own sentience.
There is a lot of draw to a perfect relationship with vulnerability without risk. And there can be benefit to using this for exploration of kinks and interests that are not practical in real life. At the same time, we do want to keep a mind on what is happening to our ability to connect and our engagement in our own reality.
Is there a line? Sure. Is that line different for everyone mainly depending on resources available to them and responsibilities that they hold? Yup.
Jess brings up a great point of needing to find what we are missing and how to fill that need. This sounds like a common theme everywhere in life. We have needs. We try to meet them as best we can. Sometimes we do not pick the healthiest way of shortcutting those needs, because we are human and are very good at making what we have work.
At the end of the day, risk and discomfort is where we grow. Creating an environment where everything seems perfect and we are never challenged means we stay stagnant in whatever point we enter into that space.
The video I was thinking of is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4w2O61Xo
This explores the cognitive bias of trying to prove a theory true by looking at what you already think fits that theory, confirming what you already believe, rather than testing the theory by trying to disprove it (the random string google search I had to do to find that impressed even me).
It’s ok to have tiny safety strands instead of one thick safety line, it just means we got to weave them together to make a net.
As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being.
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