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The story of the path to coldness in love is well known.
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We start off full of affection for one another and then, with time, feelings fade.
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We start prioritising work.
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We check our phones while they're speaking.
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We don't especially want to hear how their day went.
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There's a popular surface explanation for this kind of emotional frost.
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That people naturally get bored of one another in the same
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way as they get bored with everything else – the gadget that once seemed so amazing, the film they used to love.
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Going cold is, in this story, simply the unavoidable consequence of familiarity.
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But there's another explanation, darker at first, but in the end more hopeful.
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The loss of interest isn't either natural or inevitable.
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The boredom is something at once more complicated and more active.
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It exists because we feel hurt by,
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angry with or scared of our partner and because we haven't found a cathartic way to tell ourselves or them about it.
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Tuning out isn't inevitable, it's a symptom of disavowed emotional distress.
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It's a way of coping.
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We're internally numbed, not just a touch board.
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This can sound strange.
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After all, we might have no active sense that our partner has been hurting, angering or frightening us.
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The idea appears laughable or extreme.
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It makes our partner sound like monsters or ourselves like weaklings, neither of which is true.
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But the self that loves within a relationship is not the normal adult self we know from other zones of our lives.
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We may mostly be hugely resourceful and resilient, but the person who loves is an infinitely more vulnerable being.
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We should imagine it like a smaller, younger, more defenseless version of ourselves that lives in our heads
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and is no tougher and not much wiser than we were as babies,
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which is when so many of our needs for and ideas about love were formed.
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It's this vulnerable self that continues to direct our hearts, even if we're six foot two with a pointy beard.
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The loving self has a gossamer -thin ego.
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It gets hurt, frightened and upset with desperate ease.
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You could deeply distress it by interrupting it during a story it's telling you about the sandwich it had for lunch,
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by not asking it enough about the little spot it got on its arm yesterday, by preferring a book to cuddling,
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or being a bit tricky about what channel it should watch on TV.
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Of course, these are, by ordinary adult standards, tiny slights.
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But we don't love by adult standards.
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These small arrows are enough to wound the self that loves to its tender emotional core.
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Ideally, of course, the small self would at once point out what's happened.
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It would carefully explain that it had been frustrated and hurt.
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Its voice would be measured, undefensive, and charming.
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But mostly, it just stays silent.
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That's forgivable.
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It doesn't properly understand what's wrong.
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It just knows it's in pain and is driven by an instinct to withdraw and protect itself, which translates into behavior that looks pretty cold.
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If the adult self had to give voice to the loving self's upset, it could sound and feel absurd, which is partly why it doesn't.
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There can be something especially humiliating in having to say, I don't feel you took enough interest in the details of my lunch break,
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or I'm 45 years old but not capable of sharing a TV remote control.
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These truly are small issues for an adult to dwell on,
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but the parts of us that make themselves vulnerable in love don't obey the ordinary adult rules.
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The consequence is that the loving self dries up.
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It doesn't want to have sex.
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It gets sarcastic and irritable.
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But it doesn't even know why it's like this.
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It isn't putting on an act.
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It's confused.
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To learn to cope, we need a prominent mutual awareness
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and forgiveness of this dynamic of sensitivity and distress and a commitment to decode it when disengagement and indifference descend.
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We have to create a forum in which so -called minor love -sapping hurts can safely be aired,
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without the other dismissing, as they always so easily can, the issues at stake as childish or imagined.
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The touchiness of the loving self is ridiculous, if judged by the more robust standards of the rest of life.
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But this is not the rest of life.
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When we've gone cold, we may not truly have lost interest in our partners we might just need an opportunity to imagine
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that we are quietly really rather hurt and furious with them.
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And we should have access to a safe forum in which our tender but critical feelings can be aired, purged and understood without risk of humiliation.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Why We Go Cold On Our Partners”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: self, adult, hurt, loving, partner. Questo video contiene 28 frasi e 792 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:56. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 161 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| vulnerable aggettivo | /ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/ | vulnerabile |
| distress sostantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | angoscia, pena |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | annoiare, tediare |
| explanation sostantivo | /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ | spiegazione, esplicazione |
| ordinary aggettivo | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | ordinario, ordinaria |
| forum sostantivo | /ˈfɔːɹəm/ | foro |
| tender aggettivo | /ˈtɛn.dɚ/ | delicato, sensibile |
| inevitable aggettivo | /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/ | inevitabile |
| consequence sostantivo | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | conseguenza |
| naturally avverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente |
| complicated aggettivo | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | complicato, intricato |
| confused aggettivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confuso |
| thin aggettivo | /ˈθɪn/ | sottile, fine |
| carefully avverbio | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | minuziosamente, accuratamente |
| ridiculous aggettivo | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | ridicolo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| point out verbo | additare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | were formed · had been frustrated · would be measured |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | haven't found · we've gone |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | person who loves · absurd, which is |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 18 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come doesn't, don't, isn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thin /ˈθɪn/, withdraw /wɪðˈdɹɔ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, childish /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/, hugely /ˈhjuːd͡ʒli/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/, consequence /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, dynamic /daɪˈnæm.ɪk/, arrow /ˈæɹəʊ/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come vulnerable, distress, bore.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.