UPDATE: The world has changed since Love & Hope started on Jan. 1, in ways that none of us expected. I’ve tried to adjust this show to the present reality, but the concept isn’t really adequate to cover what’s going on. I’ll have one more episo

Things we never learned in school

Apr 1st, 2020 32m 38s

Episode 14 — If we are about to face the financial meltdown which I fear is being triggered right now, everything is about to change for all of us. Normal life as we knew it might very well be gone. And that could change everything for you — in

Love in the age of reckoning

Mar 25th, 2020 32m 54s

Episode 13 — When something has been wrong for a long time — or when books have been out of balance — there eventually comes a day of reckoning. That’s when debits and credits are added up and there’s either a credit or a price to be paid. In o

Pausing in the midst of fear

Mar 18th, 2020 3m 5s

Episode 12 — This is a very short episode this week and it’s not in my normal format. As you all know, there’s a crisis going on in the world right now and it has arrived in force all across the U.S. over the past 10 days or so. Most people’s t

Fix your relationships before it’s too late

Mar 11th, 2020 24m 8s

Episode 11 — The quality of your life is determined largely by the meaning you find in the relationships you choose, but many of us end up with broken relationships that need to be repaired. What’s just as bad is that we waste time with relatio

Counterfeit love is toxic

Mar 4th, 2020 26m 57s

Episode 10 — Nobody ever thinks he or she will end up in a love-less marriage, much less an abusive relationship with serious physical abuse. So why do so many people end up with partners who are either abusive or who can’t provide what they re

The pointless pursuit of perfection

Feb 26th, 2020 20m 35s

Episode 9 — Have you ever found the love you thought you wanted but then lost the relationship because you picked it apart — and ultimately lost the love — because the other person wasn’t perfect? We do that because we get comfortable having so

A woman’s love changes everything

Feb 19th, 2020 21m 28s

Episode 8 — Why are people who fall in love so often willing to pay a tremendous price for the love they want? I first encountered this question as a child in the book of Genesis when I read about Jacob’s love for Rachel. Why was he willing to

Will you be my Valentine?

Feb 12th, 2020 19m 51s

Episode 7 — I have horribly mixed feelings about Valentine’s Day. I grew up being told that it’s a very artificial holiday made up by companies that want to sell you something. That still makes sense to my head, but my heart strongly identifies

Waking up from the longest dream

Feb 5th, 2020 22m 23s

Episode 6 — Everybody has some delusional expectations about life when he or she is young, but most people outgrow such things pretty quickly. I started out with bigger delusions — bigger expectations and plans — and they only got bigger by the

Will you abandon me, too?

Jan 29th, 2020 27m 5s

Episode 5 — Our relationships with our parents often lay the foundation for what our future romantic relationships will be like. My mother abandoned me when I was a child and it took me many years to figure out that I was playing out that child

Both of us are broken people

Jan 22nd, 2020 24m 27s

Episode 4 — When my first company failed shortly before my 30th birthday, it was the first real failure of my life. I felt like a complete failure and spent a year in depression. For the first time, I saw how broken I was underneath my facade o

The narcissist who taught me to feel shame

Jan 15th, 2020 24m 37s

Episode 3 — My father wanted me to be just like him. Little did I know when I was young how close I came to becoming just like the narcissist who subjected me to emotional abuse for decades.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.sp

Two women loved me, but I lost them both

Jan 8th, 2020 18m 57s

Episode 2 — When I was going to get married almost 12 years ago, I had to break the news to another woman who hoped I would choose her instead. I ended up caught between two women who loved me, but I somehow lost both of them — because I refuse

“What is wrong with me?!”

Jan 1st, 2020 19m 42s

Episode 1 — When I fell into deep depression in 2009, I hoped for a quick fix, but I was forced to confront my dysfunctional childhood — and I realized I had to make serious changes to myself if I ever really wanted to be loved in a healthy way

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Intro—What’s this show all about?

Dec 26th, 2019 3m 4s

This is a brief explanation of what you’ll hear in Love&Hope in the future.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-mcelroy/message

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