All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton.

Today, we're going to be talking about the three ways that you can deepen intimacy right now.

I'm going to be focusing specifically in on your intimate relationship, on your sexual relationship.

These principles can be used in pretty much any relationship in your life, but I'm going to talk

specifically about your intimate relationship.

So the first thing that I like to talk about is appreciation. And I like to say that appreciation

is the currency of intimacy. It's the currency of intimacy. Now, you'll hear a lot of red pill,

Sigma, mindset, alpha talk that will discourage you as a man from sharing

appreciation in your relationships. And the notion here is that, you know, if you don't give them

what they want, they'll keep coming back for what they need. And over time, this isn't necessarily

a workable strategy, especially if you're looking for a long-term partnership, if you're looking

for something that's functional, and if you're looking for something that is close, where you

feel the other person, where you're connected to the other person, where the other person

knows that you care about them. And so appreciation is the currency of intimacy

because it's what builds closeness. It's what allows the other person to know that they have

value, that they have meaning in your life, what you like about them, what you appreciate about them.

And so you can start to look for the things that not only you value about them, but I think

the big challenge that I have for you is can you learn to appreciate? Can you learn to love?

Can you learn to value the things about your partner that you would normally criticize,

that you would normally judge them for, that you would normally reject about them. And can

you stand in appreciation in those moments where they're being troublesome and a bit of a pain and,

you know, maybe throwing a little bit of a tantrum or they're more emotional or they, you know,

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