Hello there listeners one and all snuggle up settle in and get ready for another episode

of the Love Life podcast with me your host Stephen Hussey.

Now the last couple of episodes have been shall we say quite matte heavy as in my brother

Matthew Hussey which is a good thing because this podcast of course bears his name so it's

probably right that we rather feature him as much as we can but I thought I would go

back to a format I did a few episodes ago and dive into one of my own written pieces

talking about something I've been thinking and writing about lately and kind of draw

out some of the best points for you.

So let's do that.

So this article was on why people don't open up and this is a topic we've talked about

before.

It's topic Matt's talked about before about the male fears.

Well he specifically spoke about the male fears of opening up and the kind of things

that scare men about emotionally putting themselves on the line and I want to kind of take

that to a more general place and focus on something else which is what are the things

that you can do that make it easier for someone to bring their honest true feelings to

you and not just in a romantic relationship but in any relationship could be a friendship

could be your family it could be your partner but in kind of all areas really I've noticed

that you know specifically from my own point of view there are people I am so much more

comfortable opening up and being my true self with and it doesn't have anything to do

with closeness.

What I've noticed is whether you open up someone or not is not a function of how much time

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