Ep 160 Linda Marigliano - Love Language

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Linda Marigliano is an Australian television and radio presenter, podcaster, musician and DJ, best known for her work on FBi Radio and Triple J. Linda has built a career out of performing for other people. In her day-job as an on-air presenter or in her family home, she contorted herself into 'the cool girl' or 'the good girl'. Exploring how to wrestle with long-distance love and learning more about herself in her key relationships (including with her Mum) has become the pursuit of Linda’s expressions - her podcast Tough Love is a podcast production masterpiece, and her book Love Language explore these theme’s. We chat about vocabulary of love in all forms - intimate partners, families, and friendships. The importance of holding expectations loosely - learning how to express what we want and the ways we like to be loved - and the importance of weaving the threads of creativity and true presence with others to continue to grow. I couldn’t have loved this conversation any more. Personal, practical, insightful and relevant for all who dance with love, soak up this conversation with Linda Marigliano. As she repeatedly over-committed and sought approval in all its guises, she started to ask herself: Why am I like this? Combing through her complex relationship with her mother, the sense of duty within her extended Italian and Chinese-Malaysian families, and the twisting turns of both her career path and her love life, she noticed a pattern emerging. Her love language had warped into acts of service that pleased everyone but herself, without boundaries or exceptions. And she'd lost the ability to translate the vocabulary of love being spoken all around her. Love Language is Linda's determined reclamation of her identity; a fiercely relatable and viscerally honest account of what it means to love and be loved.