The Importance of Expressing Our Needs

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It is a quiet tragedy that many relationships fail not due to a lack of love, but due to a failure in a basic yet vital skill: the art of emotional communication. This film explores why we struggle to speak our needs until we are at a breaking point, and how we can learn to express our most intimate truths with gentleness and self-possession before our affections are irreparably damaged. Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podcast, articles, videos, and exercises, specially tailored to your needs. Get weekly insights for better relationships, deeper self-knowledge, and inner calm straight to your inbox. Sign up for more ideas, plus 10% off your first shop order: https://www.theschooloflife.com/signup/

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“It is tear-inducing just how much can go wrong in love because we fail to master a basic-sounding hugely important skill that would probably have been in place if our childhoods had given us the right experience: the art of saying how we feel, relatively close to when we actually feel it, in a way that can be heard, with gentleness and self-possession, before our affections are irreparably affected.
In a better arranged world, we would have been trained for this from an early age. Alongside lessons in physics and geography, we would have learnt - in our Emotional Communication classes - exactly how to speak about our most intimate needs without causing upset…”

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Produced in collaboration with:

Diego Lodeiros
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Title animation produced in collaboration with


Graeme Probert
www.gpmotion.co.uk