Volume LXXXVII – The Cost of Transactional Love

This episode dismantles the quiet contract behind many relationships: perform to be loved, behave to be kept.

It explores how conditional love corrupts your sense of worth and traps you in a cycle of silent self-erasure.

When love is earned, not received, rest becomes dangerous and identity becomes fragmented.

This is how performance replaces presence; and how men become strangers to their own hearts.