Hey and welcome back to the Jason Gattis podcast. What's up?

Today we're going to talk about emotions.

All right. And I'm going to target men in this conversation. So if you're a man listening,

or know a man and you are married to one

or of a son or a father, this will be relevant. But I'm going to talk to you directly as a man

in that context. So if you're a man and you don't know the language of feelings, relationships and intimacy

is going to be incredibly limited for you.

And emotions are so essential for good, secure, strong relationships that when you don't learn how to feel

your own feelings and describe them and articulate them, and you don't know how to listen

to someone else's pain, emotions, and feelings.

You're just hamstringing, you're tying up the relationship.

You're putting a giant kink in the hose of what's possible for the two of you.

I work with a lot of men and I work with a lot of couples and for years, 20 years, working

with couples.

And one of the most common dynamics is couples' couples' couples' struggles struggle to handle, to number one, express feelings, honestly and openly, and then to

receive feelings in an effective good way, where the other person feels cared for and held

and respected through their emotional expression.

Couples that don't know how to do this are just going to suck at a lot of things.

They're just not going to reach their potential. Okay. I'll put it that way.

So I was that guy, remember, who was a They're just not going to reach their potential. Okay, I'll put it that way.

So I was that guy, remember, who was emotionally constipated until age 29.

I started feeling around age 30 once I entered therapy.

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