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since you were a kid. You were just told repeatedly that that's not going to happen.

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Intimacy is the thing you build once the communication is solidified. It is, I would argue, impossible to build intimacy if you haven't figured out how to communicate. And the reason is you're talking at each other.

You're yelling at each other or you're being really nice, but saying things that your partner

doesn't understand. You don't feel hurt or seen. And you're just spending all your time frustrated.

So that's the first really important piece to focus on in getting that solid.

It allows you to build intimacy as you start communicating that way.

I think a lot of both the communication and love languages and intimacy in our society and like the way we watch movies and TV shows, I feel like it's very limited.

Like, you know, we only have one word for love in English.

But look, this book shows that there's five different ways to express and receive love.

So we're already, like, that much further.

And then look at that wheel of vocabulary.

I mean, very little, not often are those other, like, outside words and vocabulary used in TV shows and

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