Hi, I'm Connor Beaton and welcome to the Man Talk Show. Today, we're going to be talking about intimacy,

what it is and how to deepen it in your relationship or your future relationship.

So recently, my fiance and I did a great event around relationship mastery here in New York City.

And the topic of intimacy came up and people were asking you know what it was how do you deepen it

within your relationship how can you tell whether or not you're going to have a good attraction

and intimacy with a certain person when you started to date them and so I wanted to address some of

these questions and when I started asking people what they thought intimacy was a lot of people said

it's sex it's's, you know,

what it feels like when somebody touches you,

it's how you look at another person,

it is what people think about.

So there's a lot of different definitions

of what it actually is, but the word intimacy

actually comes from the Greek word, intimus. And

intimus in Greek literally means innermost, to go innermost. And the idea, the concept

originally in Greek, back in the day, is not in Greek mythology, but, you know, a few thousand

years ago, the concept of intimus was a sense

of self-understanding. So intimacy really starts with you. It really starts with understanding yourself.

And so I have an easy way to remember this, which is into me. Into me, I see. Into me I see. And that is what I like to think about when I think about intimacy.

So intimacy really starts with our ability to understand ourselves, our inner nature, what we love, what we crave, what we desire, what our shadow is, how our past conditioning is really setting us up for success or failure within our relationships

and to really understand ourselves in such a deep and profound level that we're able to share that

with other people, that we're then able to share that with other people in such a way that they

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