The most passionate and life-changing conversations are often those where we let our feelings be known. When the risk is taken to share something that matters with someone you love, it can lead to an incredible connection or a new understanding of one another.
I never realized the power of three little words until I told my mother that I loved her. When those words left my mouth, everything in me changed for the better, and it had a ripple effect on my whole family.
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The most life-changing conversations are often those where we let our feelings be known.
– David Wood
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Michael J Maher: [00:00:00] Something that is a little bit central of what you’re saying, or at least what I’m getting from it is the whole thought of conversations. You know, there’s no such thing. I mean, if your heart is in the right place and your intentions are good, there’s almost no such thing as a bad conversation.
The only bad conversation is the one that you didn’t have. And so it’s one of those where like, for some people playing safe might mean that they’re not telling someone they love that. They love them. You know, just say, I love you and just see what happens, you know . It might freak them out, might freak you out, but you know what, it’s a conversation starter. That’s real.
David Wood: [00:00:41] You know, when uh, when I first went to do personal growth work, which freaked me out, cause they all wore name tags and they smile way too much. It freaked me out and I realized doing it that I’d never told my mother that I loved her. And I was 27, 28 at the time. And the idea of saying that freaked, I had a whole lifetime of not saying it and they, they didn’t say it to me. We just didn’t say that in our family. So I decided to practice deliberate discomfort and ah, it was terrifying, Michael.
I called her up, uh, internationally called her up and I said, look, there’s something I’ve never told you. And I, I just want you to know, I, I love you. And, and she said, oh, oh, well, that’s nice. Yeah. It was super awkward, but you never know where it’s going to go. Because two weeks later I was talking to her about something else and she said, oh, I wish you wouldn’t keep uncovering these stones.
I said, what do you mean? What stone did I uncover? She said, well, after you told me you loved me, I realized I’d never told my mother. Oh, wow. So when I drove the five hours to go and visit her this week, um, I decided I’m going to tell her. And the first day I thought, ah, it’s too early.
We’re just getting reacquainted. And the second day I thought, ah, that the right moment hasn’t come up, it’ll come. And the third day she thought, ah, she knows. She knows. I don’t have to tell her. And so she ended up hugging her mother goodbye, walking back to the car, turned on the engine. And she said to herself, Robin, if you don’t do it now, you may never get to do it.
She’s 83 years old. So she turned off the engine, walked back up the driveway and said, there’s something I forgot to tell you. I love you. So we never ever know where it’s going to lead, where it’s going to ripple out. If we’re willing to be courageous and live our own life.
Michael J Maher: [00:02:46] I’m telling ya. I mean, I have chills right now David.
