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You know all of us want to be known and that's a level of emotional intimacy that is just seems to be wired into us,

but when we try to find it, there are roadblocks along the way.

I'm John Fuller along with my friends and focused colleagues, Dr. Greg and Aaron Smalley and

Aaron, you've got a counseling practice and you talked to a lot of couples so what are some of the

major roadblocks real quickly that you see in in terms of experiencing that deep

emotional intimacy? Well there could be many but one of the primary experiencing that

the deep emotional intimacy.

Well, there could be many, but one of the primary ones I see is that they've trained each other,

that it's not safe to go to those deeper levels.

And even a couple days ago talking to someone, they were saying,

you know, a year ago ago we talked at a deep

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