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This type of person is into you but not as much as they are into themselves. One has to be careful around this type of person because they can lure you in and use you for what you can do for them. Join in the conversation as we continue to navigate the complexities together. 

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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome back to Once I Knew A
Girl.
I am your host Sam Bailey.
I appreciate all you for joininghere today and whoever you are,
wherever you are, just want tolet you know that we appreciate
you.
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So I know it's been a while,y'all, since I had my last
episode, but it's just life asthey say.

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Life Be Lifin' The idea beganwith a very subjective viewpoint

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from a male's point of view,which it is.
That's why it's Once I Knew aGirl.
But we want women to be a partof this conversation as well.
And so today's episode picks upwith Once I Knew a Girl that was
into me, but not as much as shewas into herself.
I'm going to make this personalto you.

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She was into you or he was intoyou, but not as much.
as they were into themselves.
This is hard, right?
Many of us have been there.
And if we had time, we couldtell our stories of being
dedicated, being committed,being all in, making sacrifices,

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even making life changes for aperson who does not give you the
same energy, same effort, andthe same time that you give
them.
And this is tricky because atfirst, They are everything that
you desire, everything that youimagine, everything that you
dream.
And like with any realrelationship, it takes time to

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uncover the things both good andbad.
Sometimes the good in a person,the real good that is.
impactful and influential toyou, you can't even see it and
understand it until time rollson.
And sometimes you have to lookback at it reflectively to see
what type of person this personreally is and how they really
have added some real value toyour life.

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And so being into me.
seems on the surface somethingthat I want, right?
All of us want somebody who'sinto us.
You hear people say that.
That was a movie years ago.
He's just not that into you.
And sometimes we don't realizethat.
We don't recognize that from thestart if a person is into us or
not until we are in too deep toreally realize and to really

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understand the nature of thisand how this is going to affect
us in the long term.
First of all, I will say thatthis person is self-seeking.
which means that they are in therelationship to see what they
can get out of it.
And I stated this yesterday thaton my Facebook page, that it's
time to be around people who cando more for you than what

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they're trying to get from you,who are ready to do for you.
Because we're always aroundpeople that pull on us, that
take from us, that drain us.
But what about the people whowant to pour into our lives, the
people who want to becontributors to our lives, the
people who want to be assets andnot liabilities, because there
are some people who are justliabilities.

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The cost is higher to be in therelationship with them than it
is to break away and haveindependence and freedom from
them.
She's into you, but just not asmuch as she's into herself.
She is self-absorbed.
Self-absorbed.
Think about what water does.
It conforms to everything,whether it's in a milk jug or a

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glass or in a lake.
And I think about a sponge.
A sponge absorbs that easilyconformable sponge absorbs.
She can conform to you.
He can conform to you and justeasily absorbed in oneself,
which means that that they areinto themselves so much that
it's just they're full ofthemselves and everything

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revolves around them.
Everything is about them.
And when you beginconversations, they always end
up with me.
What about me?
What about my feelings?
Yeah, I've been through thatsame thing.
And they make everything aboutthem sometimes in ways and areas
that it shouldn't be about them.

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I'll give you an example ofthis.
They like to one up.
You know what one uppers are?
You know, we've been aroundthem.
Hey, I got a job.
I got a job.
And a raise.
I got a new car.
Yeah, I got a new car and it'sgot twin turbos.
You know, I graduated fromcollege.
Well, I graduated with honors.

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I was on the dean's list.
They're always trying to one upyou.
I got new growth in my hair.
Well, I got double growth in myhair.
You know, I don't know what itis, but I always try to look
what I got for Christmas.
Well, look what I got.
I was trying to one up you.
And sometimes when someone'sinto you, but they're not as
much into you as they arethemselves, maybe you both have

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kids.
And the conversation is abouttheir kids.
And you tell them about yourkids and they tell you about
what their kids have done.
Or you tell them about whatyou've accomplished in your job.
And I know it seems like it'sjust good conversation.
But after a while, over aprolonged period of time, that's
going to wear on you.
Constantly having to validatesomeone and constantly having to

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allow the conversation to shiftto another person.
That can be frustrating.
But not only one upping.
What about one downing?
My head hurts, my head hurts,and my knee hurts.
You know, I lost my mom a fewyears ago.
Well, I lost my mom and my dadand my grandmother.
I'm going through depression.
Well, I suffer with depressionand anxiety, right?

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They one down you because it,again, always has to be about
them.
And that's the differencebetween sympathy and empathy,
right?
They probably aren't veryempathetic.
Sympathy means I feel sorry foryou.
I feel for you.
You fall down in a hole.
Oh, you fell down in a hole.
How did you get down there?
I'm so sorry you're down there.
Empathy is you fell in a hole.

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I'll be down in a minute to getyou out.
I know that I don't know exactlyhow you feel, but I know I'm
going to feel with you differentthan feeling for you.
So I'm in the conversation.
I'm listening to what you'resaying, not just to try to get
some kind of response or toreply or to one up or one down.

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I am in to you.
I'm not into what you can do forme.
I'm not into you just becauseyou give me advice.
I'm not into you because youso-called complete me.
And that's a whole nother thing.
I wish I had time to talk aboutthat.
You know, we need to be wholepeople instead of trying to hook
up, joining somebody else.
And we're incompletes.
We think two incompletes make awhole.

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No, it doesn't work like that.
The relationships that thriveand that are the best are when
two whole people come togetherand they don't have identity
crisis.
They know who they are and theyknow that this person is a
complete.
is a complimentary piece, not acompletion piece.
And so therefore you lower theexpectation of that other

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person.
And then when you lower theexpectation, you lower the
disappointment.
So when expectation doesn'tmatch our reality, you're left
with disappointment, right?
So this person is verypersuasive and they will have
you believing.
Yeah, they want your attention,but they only want your
attention because they need yourattention because they're often

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disappointed.
Attention seeking.
All right.
And I think it's so important torealize that that auditioning is
going to occur with this person.
I think that's what's kind ofwrong with the dating scene now.
You know, I often used to say ifI'm going to marry you or get
married.
close to you or be serious withyou, I need to see your bad

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days.
I need to see how you react todisappointment.
I need to see what yourcommunication style is.
I need to know how you handleconflict, not just, can we go
out to eat?
Do you know how to dance?
Do you look good?
Are you fine?
Does she have a booty?
Does he have a chest?
Do they got money?
What's their education stat?
I mean, it has to be deeper thanthat.

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Who are they?
Who is this person?
What's their mindset?
What's their foundation?
You can study apes at a zoo, butif you want to know what an ape
is really like, you got to studyit in its natural habitat.
Who are the people around them?
Where do they come from?
Why are they seeking attention?
Why do they become so easilyattached to people?

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These are all questions thatneed to be asked.
and addressed and answered ifpossible because the auditioning
will occur an actor you know thehypocrite means someone who
wears a mask someone who'stwo-faced right they in action
and they put on their mask andthey give you exactly what you
need hey this is what we desirefrom the part you show them your

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skills you put on the characteryou go into to the character you
goes so deep into the characterthat you want to become one with
the character.
And we want to see nodistinction between you and the
person that you're playing.
We want you to be so believablethat we actually believe you are
the character.
And so they make you believethat they are that person.

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He is that dude.
She is that girl.
And so they audition, but it'sbecause they want They want you
to be into them.
And they want to be everythingthat you want and everything
that you need.
But it's really about theattention seeking because who
doesn't turn around and give aperson that they think that's
into them the attention thatthey need?

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Oh, man, she really likes me.
She really pays attention towhat I'm saying.
But at the end of the day, yousee those relationships evolve
and they change and they switchup because after a while, it's
like, hey...
This person I look up, what dothey really add to my life?
What kind of value do they addto my life?
And really, what is it that I amgaining and benefiting from this

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person?
These conversations always endup with them.
At the end of the day, we alwaysgot to do what they want to do.
I'm always having to be the oneto lift them up and to reaffirm
them and to confirm their ideas.
When would we ever do what Iwant to do?
And I often say inrelationships, how you start off
is how you're going to finish.

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So be careful how you start off.
If you start off coddling,giving into everything that this
person wants and being fooled ordeceived by the attention that
they give you, it's going to bea frustrating thing.
Because not only when you talkabout this, this auditioning and
acting, this ability to be ableto make you feel that they are

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the only person that you needcan be deceptive as well.
Somebody says, well, what do Ido if I find myself in this
position where someone is intome and I feel like they're into
me, but I'm realizing thatthey're not into me as much as
I'm into myself?
This is tricky because peopleoften say in relationships,
relationships are 50-50.

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When have you ever seen arelationship that was 50-50?
I might have said this on one ofmy prior podcasts, 50-50 or
100-100.
When is that where everybody'sgiving 100% all of the time or
everybody's bringing the sameequal half.
I don't know where we get thisstuff.
We get a lot of things and westart believing them.
It's like I was saying earlier,people say you can't judge a

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book by the cover.
Yes, you can.
Why do you think people spendthousands of dollars on the
graphics and the cover?
Because most of the time whenpeople go to Barnes and Noble or
the library.
Or wherever they go, what dothey do?
They look at the cover of thebook to see if it's something
that they like and if it'ssomething that they're
interested in.

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And even though you shouldn't,you can.
So a lot of times you can seethat person.
You can see it from a distance,but maybe you choose to go on.
Maybe you choose to ignore somethings because you try not to do
that.
I can't judge what I'm seeing.
You're seeing, you're hearingit.
It's coming out of their ownmouth.
They're telling you who theyare.
And I'm like...
Maya Angelou heard her say onetime, people show you who they

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are, believe them.
And that's a powerful thing.
How do you do this if you findthat someone's into you, but not
as much as they're intothemselves?
Well, you're going to get tiredof, again, trying to validate
and confirm them and reassurethem in all of their
insecurities.
So one of the things is just behonest with this type of person.

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And most of the time when youconfront them about this, Be
prepared to know that they'reprobably not going to Admit to
it because they probably lacksome level of self-awareness,
awareness like I really see whoI am.
I know him.
If they really were aware ofthat in the first place, you
might not even be having theissues that you're having at

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this current moment.
So that's important to make itknown to them.
And and to you have to find away to create and maintain
healthy boundaries in thatplace, because the healthy
boundaries are what allow you tokeep that person at the proper
distance, at the proper space.
space to know that this is, hey,what I can tolerate and this is

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what I cannot tolerate.
And then lastly, you have torealize that love is not a
bandage to cover a wound.
Just because the relationship isover with this person is not
what you think it is and what itought to be doesn't mean that
you just immediately jump intosomething different or jump onto
the next.
But you got to really stayfocused on where you're going,

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what you're determined to do,and just know that The best days
that are ahead of you for yourrelationship or for your life,
if you just continue to focus onwhat really matters instead of
those things that don't matterat all, because there's a lot of
things that don't matter that'seasy to focus on.
I just hope today that you wouldfind that if you're into looking

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for a relationship right now,you might even be looking for a
relationship.
But if you are seeking one, makesure you seek one that the
feelings are mutual.
Make sure you can find one wherethe person seeks to try to
understand who you are and whereyou desire to go.
And then you can truly findsatisfaction in a relationship

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instead of disappointment.
Well, I thank you for joiningtoday.
And I really appreciate yoursupport.
And I would appreciate if yousubscribe and tell others about
this podcast if you like it.
I think I know we have listenersfrom all over the country and
the world.
And I'm so grateful to you.
Let's keep the conversationgoing.

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So we'll see you next time righthere on Once I Knew a Girl.
Thank you.
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