Shadowing Practice: When Love Isn't Easy - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You're up in the middle of the night and again you're in trouble in love.
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You had another discussion over dinner.
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You tried to get them to see that sometimes
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because of X you do Y and they respond with Z and it's unpleasant.
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And they countered at first politely and then with mounting irritation
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that even though A you think B and that's why C is maddening to them.
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Both of you tried, pretty valiantly, to get your points across with calm and kindness.
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Both of you managed to be more or less polite, more or less restrained, more or less grown up.
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And by the end of two hours of conversation, you parted in an almost affectionate way and went to sleep in different rooms.
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But it's not enough and you know it.
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That's why you're up at 3am hearing the rain fall.
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You're pursued by questions.
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What do you keep doing wrong in love?
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Do you even belong together with this obviously very nice person?
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Why is it so hard?
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You briefly wonder what it would be like to leave.
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You picture some new dates.
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But the picture soon curdles.
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The horror of starting all over again with someone new.
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You'd miss your partner.
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You have a lot of shared memories.
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There used to be, until quite recently, considerable hope.
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You don't know what to do.
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If only there was someone to speak to.
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A wise, kind person who would know how to cut through this.
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Then you realise that more than a solution, what you really want is someone who could understand how hard it is that there isn't one.
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Someone who would just say, I know, I know.
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Sometimes we don't need solutions.
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We need sympathy for our impasses.
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We need to know that we're not idiots for having the challenges we have.
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That other sensible people have been here too.
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That it could almost be okay to have this difficulty forever.
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Maybe it's just one of life's givens.
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That's when a bracing, pessimistic philosophy is called for.
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The sort that says, of course you're miserable, you're alive.
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Of course it's a mess.
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Welcome to existence.
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Of course love is a bit impossible.
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You're a human being.
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This isn't the first choice, naturally naturally.
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You wanted to sort this out perfectly, the way you like to sort out other things perfectly, at work, in domestic life.
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But this isn't a cupboard or an accounting document.
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The number of people who have this area of life properly sorted out is minuscule, perhaps below 1%.
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You have failed here, that's for sure, but you're not exceptionally stupid for that.
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You're averagely mad, averagely emotionally perturbed,
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and what you're trying to do is something exceptionally, extraordinarily, dementedly hard.
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Poor you and poor all of us.
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