My guy! Thanks for having me on the channel. I loved this conversation with you. Thank you to everyone watching, and those of you vulnerably commenting. ❤

I'm 62 years old. I have a bit of living under my belt. I have 2 quotes posted on my kitchen cupboards that speak exactly about what you are talking about: Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is. To he happy you must: Let go of what's gone. Be grateful for what remains. Look forward to what is coming next. And yes, life brings beautiful things/ people to you. Let's celebrate them and be thankful for them. Life also brings difficult times and experiences. Let's also thank life for them. They bring sorrow, wounds, grieving, but they are all there to teach us something and bring us forward on our life path.

I love the contrasting backdrops of each of your rooms.

In my 49 years I never found that person, and i used to think something was wrong or missing. It is weird that we view being single as a lesser way of living. I turned to self-love and amplifying my own happiness long ago, and it was the best thing I could have done. I enjoy the life I lead and the serenity/peace of mind that I've found. Truthfully, we're not all going to find someone, so as Matthew says often, the key is finding the point at which you are "happy enough."

I love how transparent Matthew is about his feelings & a whole generation who suffer

I’m guilty for feel sad for single people .. now in my 54 year -I am beginning to see the benefits of it … Here I goooo!!

Just hate how the people in relationships brag about it all over social media. I guarantee it’s not all like that. Any healthy couple has fights, go through hard times, etc.

The most beautiful conversation ❤ thank you, from a woman in her forties, without children, who is grieving and also making a plan

Self-compassion, grace, acceptance…things we all struggle with but STRUGGLE to share. But these are the conversations that give our lives direction and meaning. Thank you.

Being single is highly underrated

I just want to say I love your whole studio setup. The soft lighting, the ambiance, mimicking a therapy visit make me lower my guard, relax my shoulders and lean in to what you're going to say. I'd love to be able to recreate that vibe myself.

Needed to hear your message about “Plan B”… Couldn’t have come at a better moment… Love to you always, Matthew! Keep on keeping on… Thank you for sharing your story with us

Matthew is an amazing human... so insightful to the human condition. This was a great exchange. I love David Whyte.. I treasure one of his sayings. "Your soul would rather you fail at your own life than succed at someone elses."

Can I just give a 10/10 for the sheer quality on every level ! This was wholesome to the max . I’m so here for this , deeply resonating with it all .

I have never clicked on anything faster - so pumped was I for this crossover. I've followed you both for years. This didn't disappoint! ❤

Insightful chat. I'm 36 now & it's quite a challenge how society is all about getting married and having kids. I'm at the point where I just want to make peace to just BE happy in the present. Why is it so damn difficult. I resonate with many parts in the chat. But also seeing the chat comments, I see many people are in the same situation.

There is so much wisdom and depth in this talk, thank you! I've also travelled the path of finding acceptance within chronic illness. Even though it wasn't the path I'd imagined, plan B is turning out to be so beautiful, in ways I'd never imagined. Sure it'd be great not to be ill forever, but I don't need to get better to find joy and happiness. I loved exploring in this discussion how it rings true for so many other aspects of life too ❤ Ps. I love the duality of the book title - love life

Matthias, you have changed my life with your wisdom and words this year. Thank you! I love this video and needed to hear this exactly when it was released. 💛💛💛 God is good and he’s used you both to help communicate with me.

Having been there for so many years, I can honestly say my approach would be to replace “finding love” in a romantic partner with finding the eternal unconditional love of God, the best way forward… having that connection fills this void on every level.

This is the most beautiful conversation I have heard with Mat. I am happy to have heard it. Congrats!

Such a profound deep conversation not just about love but life in general - it's helping me in the very moment going through some rough times. So helpful, so supportive, so powerful the perspectives you shared -Thank you

Phenomenal work on both ends. Thank you both for your hard work in making these insightful truths available. They are an encouragement to so many of us who are on the journey to becoming who we are meant to be and finding our purpose in the every day moments. So grateful.

Such a great company on the way home after a long busy day! What I noted down to remember: What's my plan B and how could I make it even more beautiful than I could have imagined? When you are 'happy enough' you then have the energy back to make that plan B a new and more beautiful plan A. You might realise you are not the best judge of what should be your plan A. Don't rigidly hold on to the picture of what you think plan A should be - you might miss out on the adventure of your life = ambition is frozen desire. It lacks humility, it has no curiosity about all the ways life is going to bring us joy and meaning that have nothing to do with what we decided to be ambitious about. Life was never going to be easy. Experience is living. It's wrong to think that when we are having a bad experience that's not living, that we are living only when we have a good one. In the lowest moments, one thing you can hold on and count on is the fact that things change: the situation will change and how you feel will change. Thank you both !

Love this interview. No coincidence I came across this today! I really needed to listen to this! A truly down-to-earth, meaningful, encouraging, authentic discussion about life that I found to be really helpful and enlightening. Thank you guys🙏

I never realized that Mr Matthias J Barker, has a KZfaq Channel. Thank you, KZfaq, for recommending.

Two of my favorites! Lucky day.

What a PURE / AMAZING conversation !!! ❤❤❤

Man oh day. How cool! You've both contributed so much to my life over the years. Thank you.

This has been such an incredible conversation. Thank you both x

I could listen to yall ALL... day!!

I love this long form content. The shorts are fine to get the "hook". I found you on tiktok because of it. I would love to see more long form content if possible.

I feel broken. And I don’t and haven’t used dating apps bc I’m afraid of getting hurt (I guess that’s being kind saying it like that) bc I have “been hurt” by 2 people I knew before. And I knew these people but never imagined that would ever happen. I want to be in love, be loved but I’m not running into anyone grocery shopping or in church. I’m “friends “ with my 3 exes, who all cheated and hurt me. I don’t hold anything against them, obviously. I just don’t understand what’s wrong with me? I can be alone and have been for years and at times, happy. However, the depression that comes and goes, thankfully not as much as it used to be but it’s almost debilitating. Finding happiness alone, doing things and loving everyone else has not taken away that I know I’m a good person, selfless and incredibly loving but I’ve had 3 long term relationships and never been married, no children (can not have them 💔) I was a loving parent to my ex’s son from elementary school and he’s in high school now. It has almost been 2 years since my ex cheated and the relationship ended and I’m so grateful my ex said I will never get in the middle of your relationship with him. I said, and I’ll always let it be up to him. I don’t see him in person bc we now live 4 hours away but we (me and his amazing son) stay connected through text, FaceTime, and IG. So, I’m beyond grateful for him and our relationship. But, I have long stretches of “I’m good, I don’t need anyone.” I don’t need anyone, I want to love and be loved in a HEALTHY relationship. I don’t know what’s wrong with me… I just know no one has ever truly loved me. It’s a harsh reality when you’re a person who loves with all of my being. I’m sorry. I’ll probably come back and delete this.

What an inspiring talk, especially the second half. Practicing gratitude for what I have now in my life. "The only constant in life is change."

This was incredibly eye-opening. God bless you guys in your work!

Looking forward to hearing this whole thing. I enjoy learning from both of you guys.

What a good conversation from two of my favorites people I like your way of deep thinking and explaining thank you both for this

This is so cool seeing both of them together.

Matthew Hussey is amazing

Two of my favs in the same conversation!

I am so glad that I found your channel!😁

Thanks to you both so much. One of the best conversations ever as it gets to the very core of being a human and which is about love. I have been single for most of my life and now at 55 I truly want to give up on hoping for it and that it can still happen in future. Like they said I want to give up my desire to be with someone as it's just too painful to keep hoping or wishing for something that seems just too hard to find. Some people find love easy for some reason, some struggle like me. I think it's legitimate to want love in our life. The truth is not having it bring suffering and this cannot just be played down. I hate people who have a partner telling but a bad partnership can be worse. Not helping really. And I can never be fully happy and I will always be said to the end of my life about not having love in my life. Having said this, I will aways want to wish everyone still find love if they wanted to.

This is so wonderful guys 👏❤

20:14 Oh man this is deep. Thank you❤

Gratitude that you are in my life 🙏

my biggest problem with therapist, been with a few of them, but... as an intelligent person, i know whats wrong with me. i've taken the classes, i've been around. i just dont know how to fix it. how do i fix it

Love this

Would you not refer to singlehood as a disease. There are myriad couples who aren't in harmony and are very unhappy/imbalanced together and that can easily be labeled as a disease/cliche. Words are powerful! A relationship in alignment and in harmony is an added bonus to an already aligned life in harmony.

Now mindset from matthias , " 1 thing to count on is change". 😀

so so good ya'll

@mathias, would love to hear you speak about your marriage in 30 years...you have got a long ways to go...

Being single doesn't have to be bad for those who are happy with it. I find relationships incredibly beautiful and would like to live out all my inner needs, even the ones I can't fulfil on my own. ‘You can't kiss alone’ is the title of a song. Even though I've had negative experiences, I'm personally not the type to live the single life forever, even though I really enjoyed the single phases. I don't think there is a ‘disease’ that you could call ‘being single’ that needs to be cured. We have a social brain and have needs as human beings. However, I understand that this can be a comfort for some to cope with. Being single is not a stigma for me. Many people give themselves this stigma because we as humans have a longing, a need to love and be loved. I don't think there's anything wrong with longing for love, affection and tenderness that goes beyond friendship. A lot of media/podcasts/talks try to convince people to be happy alone and single. If I say to myself: ‘It's okay to stay single’, then I personally become lazy, comfortable and don't do anything more in that direction and get used to it, which I think I'll seems regret later.🙂

Inspired!

Ive always wondered this and would really love it if you maybe talk about: how to deal with the grief of losing a lost one

You can be alone and you can be lonely For me is to be alone to be free ❤❤❤

I love you guys both ❤🎉

I think what is left out of the conversation is that some people want to find someone trust worthy by and willing to help them out financially. Things are so expensive now you’re paying a lot for lower quality things.

40:30 if not greatfull, we will think that this was story of life 41:30 if in grief, new opportunities standing in front of me, are not seen - frozen desire; settle for second best

Goodness, must say you both are a good example for so many people in brokeness because of Love and making wrong choices. But the ways you learned from it , was actualy life goes on. The dissapointment and pain is training new thoughts, go on inspite of the fact you dont know were to. Look forward and to adapt in a new plan for the future. Learn to trust our Lord because HE knows your Heart and desires.. I was in this same senario too, and I am happy alone and have the most wonderfull kids and grandkids.I am so greatfull for my mistakes, it seems to be my innersoul and mind was not always insync. But I found peace in my mistakes, learn from it and became a better ME.. BY THY GRACE! grandkids, and I am so tha 48:26 nkful for

there was a Lithuanian president a woman who was never married Dalia Grybauskaite btw :D

I’m only 20 and I’m fucking hopeless who gives a shit about anything I’m just gonna be one of those people that makes the most of it…it horrifies me

I hope one find the right person ❤️

I just divorce Last year and everybody on my age are having a family....I dont so I Think they dont fell confortable, so im alone😢

I got really fortunate to find the one but I don't think I could do it again. I had God helping me the first time around. Doing it on my own would not work very well. I'd probably need a lot of support should anything happen to him.

17:12 Exactly. I feel like I *who I am* as a person is a partner. I compare my being single to being a professional tennis player, but having no one to play with at that level. Sure I can train, eat well, practice by myself, learn, grow, heal, stay mentally/emotionally/physically healthy, and contribute. It's just not fulfilling to "play catch" instead of "tennis" with others (how I see mediocre friendships and acquaintanceship). Not having someone to play advanced "games of tennis" (not have a fulfilling partnership) leaves a tremendous void inside of me and my life. I was always told something was wrong with me for what I want in a relationship. But I am finally accepting this about myself, which means I'm finally accepting me.

I think we feel societal pressure to find someone because from an evolutionary standpoint, we are supposed to reproduce and we are most capable of reproducing at a younger age (like in our 20s). So we essentially feel like we have failed in life because we aren’t doing what we are “supposed” to according to evolution.

Adventures suck and change is always for the worse.

I was just recently watching a video of yours in the Trauma super conference where you talked about people pleasers. It was very informative. I must ask if you have been in relationships with people pleasers? You seem very upset or a little angry towards a people pleaser when describe them. I disagree with your concept on empaths. I was always an intuitive empath as a child. Reading minds and having visions in my dreams. I could read people but also people please because I was not getting my needs met as a child. I would pick up so heavily on peoples emotions and take them on. That is one thing that is still hard is picking up peoples emotions and not being able to put them down . Do you have any suggestions on that ?

I don’t think that people view singleness as a disease, but rather they are seeking to cure a specific type of loneliness that only a deep intimate spousal relationship can cure. A spousal relationship is different than that with any other family member or friend. Honestly, what could this guy possibly know of it to speak on it?

One question : What is the difference between Imagaination/Daydreaming /fantasizing and Visualisation. All this is sounding so similar.??????????????????????????????//

Better off single.Only get ripped off.

I cant stand being a human being. Its exhausting and tiring.

A dog solves so much of these needs;)

Bro just a suggestion . Change the thumbnail. Enlarge Mathews face. Add a short catchy line on it . (Examples: jay shetty's thumbnails) It would increase your views. Right now his face is barely visible on the thumbnail so i think arent clicking on it

James Buchanan was single. Just for the record :)

There is a single President in Portugal called Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ❤ and Justin Trudeau is divorced and single too. So let's normalize singledom not as being doomed to be alone but having the opportunity to build something of value for yourself, if we find someone it's ok, if we don't it we also be ok. Nurture your being, and let your inner child be vibrant and alive 🎉😂

first... feels lonely being the single comment

I have been. lonely nearly all my life.I got used once.Been single for 25 years.I rather have my car.More faithful.To many Golddiggers out there.

LOL! Mathew is the Biggest Narcissist, but he hides it so WELL! Only people who know him closely, know how narcissistic he is. He is a professional actor and he wears his "nice" mask very well! It took me a year to figure out who he REALLY is! A manipulative narcissist who uses women to HIS advantage. He doesn't give a sh## about anyone else, but himself!