Why 90% Of People CAN'T FIND TRUE LOVE In A RELATIONSHIP |Matthew Hussey & Lewis Howes

And in a heartbreak, just because you miss your partner, that doesn't actually make that feeling that important. Just because you feel hurt and you feel like, oh my God, I'll never find anyone like that again. That's just a thought and an emotion that's attached to that thought and it doesn't make it that important.

Welcome, everyone, to the School of Greatness Podcast. We've got my man, New York Times bestselling author, the best love coach in the world, Matthew Hussey in the house. Good to see you, man.

What's going on?

Super pumped about this. We are unfortunately not able to do this in person right now because of what's happening in the world. But, we have been friends for what, five years now probably.

Yeah.

We just went to Poland together a few months ago and did some crazy Wim Hof breathing, mindset, cold therapy with a group of guys. We We try to connect in LA every month or two when we're both in town. But I miss you, man. I can't wait to give you a hug soon.

I miss you too. It's just everyone says it, right? It's such a bizarre time.

Yeah, exactly, man. But it's all good. And, you know, I've been in an interesting time in my life because I was dating someone long distance for a year. who lived in Mexico, you know Jeanette, and dating her long distance. Then she moved in, essentially in January, the beginning of the year. We had six weeks, eight weeks of challenges of just how to live together, who's responsible for what, what expectations to have. Learning how to communicate with someone long distance is much different than learning how to communicate living together. So I felt like we went through a phase of, okay, this is our test to see how can we be patient? How can we learn to communicate better? How can I improve? How can she improve? All that stuff. And it got to a good place. Then quarantine. And then new things came up. Okay, we have different challenges and adversities and learning to communicate even more and routines and spacing and All these different things. And I feel like we just two weeks ago were able to really communicate and get to the root of so many things that I think a lot of relationships have challenges with where they don't actually deal with the root cause of what's happening, why someone's truly upset in the moment, why someone's truly frustrated. And I'm sure more is going to come up and I haven't like have this perfect relationship, but I feel like we have this understanding now and I feel really grateful, at least in this moment. But there are a lot of people in the world are struggling in a big way who are in relationships, long distance relationships and also living together now who can't leave. I'm curious, what's your overall just feeling and energy around this as the guy who's helping a lot of women manage and navigate these relationships? What's kind of your overall thoughts Before we get started on all this.

Well, I suppose before I answer that, I am curious, do you feel that in your relationship, being in this situation, precipitated a conversation and a depth of communication that wouldn't otherwise have occurred?

I think we were pretty open with each other already. I think we need to be because of the language barrier. She's pretty fluent in English, but Spanish is her first language. so we have a lot of body language, a lot of needing to over communicate because one word that I might say she could think is something completely different just based on her perception of that word. So I've had to learn just how to have patience, how to not react, if she gets worried about something I said that isn't what I meant, all these things that normal guys don't have to deal with. I'm doing it like even extra. So I feel like I've already been super mindful of moving in and needing to over communicate. And during this time, I've just said to myself, this is a very stressful for her. I can feel and sense the worry. I can feel the fear and anxiety, her being away from her family, just everything, the scare of it all. And so I have just committed to saying, I'm going to be overly patient, overly communicating, and overly understanding during this time and not hold anything against her, not be frustrated if she's not calmer in certain moments or if she's overreacting for whatever reason, which she's not overreacting, just I can sense the worry sometimes. And I'm just selling myself like, this is hard for everybody.

Yeah.

And the more patient I can be now in the hardest of times or seemingly very hard times, the greater the relationship will be in the future by being more loving, understanding, and patient in adversity, not by freaking out and making her wrong or. Yeah. Reacting. So that's been kind of my. My commitment to myself and my relationship.

I think that's great. And I, you know, I think what one of the things you alluded to, which is really important, is being mindful. of what other people are feeling during this time and creating space for that, as well as doing it for ourselves as well. I woke up today, I had such a good day yesterday. I got so much done. Not that I value every day by how much I get done, but I was so productive and I did creative work that was important to me. I've got a webinar that I'm doing soon and I I mapped out the content for that. And then I did a bunch of chores. It was like the perfect quarantine day.

Everything got done. You cleaned out the house.

Yeah, exactly. Then I did laundry. Then I cleaned out my closet and got rid of all these clothes I don't need. And I did all these things. And I went to bed last night and I thought, man, what a great day. I woke up, I've been so grumpy today.

I don't like- I'm glad I'm getting the best of you, Matthew.

You are. Mate, I put on a shirt for you. I didn't like this. Put the hair up. But, you know, this, yeah, my hair, this is as good as my hair was gonna get today. I dolled myself up for a minute to come and do this, but I really had like a grumpy day today. And I even said to like a couple of my team, I was like, God, I'm so grumpy. Like sometimes I think if you're feeling something is actually important, like, just point it out and don't give it too much power. Like, I'm really irritable today. I'm just, like, driving me crazy. I'm grumpy today. Because then it's like, I'm. I'm sort of. I'm telling people, like, this is sort of where I'm at. I'm struck. I needed to make a video today. I haven't got that video done today because I said to one of my guys, I was like, I know you need that video today, but I'm like, I'm just not in the mood. I don't want to film this today. Let's do it tomorrow. I knew I could hold a day. There are days when I have to rally and I have to do it. But today I I was like, I'm doing this tomorrow, I'm not in the right place. And I think if we're in a house with somebody, it's super important sometimes just to communicate to that person, this is what I'm experiencing right now, or I'm not having my best day today. And that allows them to kind of maneuver and to figure out, oh, this tact that I normally take with you isn't the right approach for today. There's a different approach that's important for today. It's sort of giving someone a bit of a blueprint almost to say. And by the way, sometimes you could go even a step further because saying to someone, I feel grumpy today doesn't give them a lot they can do with that information.

Right.

But if, you know, I could use this person being a bit gentle with me today, or I could use person being a little soft with me today, or just spelling that out and not making it about them. Because what we do is we expect someone to read our mind and know that we're, you know, we need a different approach. And then when they don't, we get even more grumpy and we explode and they wonder what the hell's going on in in that moment saying to them, listen, I'm like, even playfully, not everything has to be serious. I'm like grumpy today.

Yeah.

Half as you say it, but like, I'm grumpy today. I'm like, laugh at yourself. Like, because I today I felt like that. I was like, the things that are making me mad today are like, some.

Of them are silly.

So rational. Yeah. So someone did nothing wrong and it's making me mad. And I was like, you know what? Then let's laugh at this and then let's engage other people in my life in this, not ask them to take it on for me, but just laugh.

At my- Pressing it. Yeah.

And I think it going one step further sometimes and even saying like, you know, you've got to be a bit gentle with me today because I'm having one of those days.

I think that's a great talking point. And even just yesterday, Jeanette was having one of those days. She was like, I'm not doing my workout. I didn't do my English class, what she's doing every day. I wasn't doing the things I wanted to do. I wasn't productive. And I felt like I had too many things in my mind and I was stressed and worried about my mom and family. But she communicated it to me because I remember she wasn't communicating and I was like, Is everything okay? And then she did and it's like the elephant was out of the room. And you can give your permission to your partner, whether it's your man or your woman or your partner in the relationship. to learn how to respond to it better as opposed to being on edge or worried about it. So communicating, I think it'd be great of how you're feeling that day.

And it helps the other person not take it personally.

Personally, yes. Or not feel like they did something wrong.

We think, yeah, you're, oh, like you're making, yeah, you're making this my fault now. Yeah. You're making it about something I'm doing. And that's where arguments start. But actually, I've found when people we love, when they when they show vulnerability, we're actually far more likely to feel loving and to want to do something about it because we know it's not, it's not something we're doing, it's something they're feeling and, well, now I can help. But if it becomes a battle of good and evil over what I'm doing wrong, then, then our ego gets involved and it stops us from realizing what's actually happening and how we can help that person. Yeah. And I think just being mindful that, like, there's There's just we're all in a situation right now where there are things that we wouldn't normally have to put up with. We're, you know, you and I wouldn't normally be doing this interview this way with me in my house. There's a, you know, as you were talking a minute ago, there was a plane that flew overhead. Normally, if I was shooting one of my videos, we'd pause, wait for the plane to go, keep going, just because we want as like great sound, you know? Of course. Now there's a plane and you're like.

Oh, there's a plane that planes to now. Yeah, we're using a webcam, we're using this. It's like, yeah, and you're like, trying.

To figure out how to turn the mic the brakes are, you know, we're all figuring stuff out. Yeah. And everyone's gonna have in their relationship the plane that they have to put up with right now that they don't normally have to put up with because they can just hit pause or they could just leave the house or they can just get in their car and drive away. And right now we can't do that. The tools, the tools are different. We've got to bring out different tools than we used to. Be more flexible.

You remind me of a time when I was living on in Columbus, Ohio, I was living on my sister's couch. She lives one house away from the train tracks. And, every 45 minutes, the train would come and literally shake the house and be so loud and have this big horn. And, I remember it's kind of like we got to live by the train tracks all day right now. It's where you just had to learn how to manage it and navigate it even if you couldn't escape it. I really want to cover three main, I guess, distinctions or experiences that I think people are in right now during this this episode in this interview. One is living with someone and being in a relationship while being quarantined. Two is being in a relationship long distance during this time. And three is looking for love but unable to put yourself out there physically and meet people in person. And I want to start with people in relationships who are in a small space or feel like they're confined or trapped and can't get out. and some people might be thriving in this time, but I'm hearing a lot of people who are dming me, and I'm sure you're getting a lot of private messages from people saying, this is not the person I thought it was that I got in a relationship or married, especially the marriages. This, you know, I feel like I can't communicate with this person. This person is grumpy every day. They're unable to open up.

They.

It was hard for them to show their emotions before. Now they want him to show anything.

Mm-.

What do you say to people that feel like, man, I feel like this is a test, a big test for us, whether we're going to make it or break it. Should people be so people be so quick to ending something if they can't figure out this time of adversity? Or do we give people a pass because everyone's stressed out? What's your thoughts on living with someone right now? And it's going really bad.

It's weird, isn't it? Because on on one level, We're experiencing just more of who our partner actually is.

Right.

Just seeing, you know, we don't see that side. There's this funny tweet that went around and it was some it was from a woman. I'm sorry, I can't credit this person. I can't remember, but she said something like, you know, she heard her husband say something on the phone, like, let's circle back. And she was like, I had no idea my husband was a let's circle back guy. Who knew?

Because she'd never heard him on the phone before. He's always at work.

Yeah, that's kind of perfect because you are seeing a dimension of your partner that you don't normally see. And that can be quite surprising for people. For some people, it will be sexy because it's like all of a sudden my partner's at home and I see them on a business call and I'm like, oh, that was a kind of a turn on. Seeing my partner in their element, powerful, doing their thing. Other people will cringe.

Let's circle back on that, Jerry.

And then there's gonna be a lot of people who just, there are sides of their partners that they find in heavy doses are quite unmanageable and normally they're only getting that in 30% of their day or 20% of their day. How many relationships survive because people only get each other for 20% of the day? Think about it in terms of long distance. if you look at the extreme end of the spectrum, normally, how many long distance relationships survive because those two people aren't in the same place? And then the moment they come to the same city, not even perhaps to live together, but they come to move to the same city, it all falls apart. There's a line that my boxing trainer said to me once, he said, or he said, like I was talking to him about someone, he said, Are you in love with this person's presence or are you in love with their absence? And I said, some of us, we're in love, but what we're really in love with is the absent version of them. The version of them we can talk about, we can think about the version of them.

We can fantasy.

Yeah, we can project something onto them. Are you in love with their absence or their presence? And a lot of people are finding out they're not in love with the presence. of their partner right now.

You know, the thing you're saying right here, Yo Yo Ma, I think he said this quote that music happens between the notes. And I know the power of being with your partner and separating, having space, coming back together. That's where the music happens when you've got that separation and you come back to it's like a breath in and out. So how do you create music in your relationship if there's no in between? With Esther, how do you create intimacy and distance and date nights and missing someone when you're always around?

Beautifully put, Louis. And of course, our friend Esther Perel would, you know, she has plenty to say on this too in terms of, she always talks about desire existing in the space between people. And if there's no space, then how can desire exist? Look, there are different extremes people are going through right now. If you live in a big house with somebody and you can disappear to your side of the house and they there's that's that you're already in a luxurious position compared to many people who are living now in a studio apartment with someone in a 600 foot studio apartment and they're, you know, the bed is the desk and you could basically fry up your eggs from the bed. so close, you know, that's a tough situation to be in right now. And what we're going to have to do there is engineer space, quote, there are different forms of space, there's physical space, there's emotional space, psychological space, there's all sorts of different versions of space. We're going to have to engineer space even in extremely intimate and close environments. So it might be like, I think one of the I think one of the most valuable devices you have right now is your headphones. Like, I honestly think your headphones are like those you should like be stocked up on at least three pairs if you live with someone in a one bedroom flat. Because in that situation, it's not rude to go into your own world and to say like, what we have to do is communicate with our partners when we want space, but we've got to be a bit careful how we do that. because it can easily come across like, I'm sick of you, right? I want space from you. Now, there may be some truth in it, but we all have to articulate ourselves in helpful rather than hurtful ways.

So, something someone could say if they know they need space, but when I say, I need space, it really means I'm sick of you in this moment. What's a conversation starter that's loving.

Enough.

To cue that up?

I'd reverse engineer it. So I'd start by talking about a piece of quality time you want to spend with them. So for example, you say to them, can we have a full-on movie night tonight?

Dinner, movie, massage, everything.

Like light candles, let's turn our living room into a cinema. and, like, make it, like, let's have a surround sound.

Yeah.

Like, have a real movie night tonight. Let's lose ourselves in it and pretend we're at the movies or. And that could apply to anything. Let's have, like, you and me time, like, a real dinner tonight. Let's do this tonight. Whatever. Whatever's your thing. Once you've agreed that time, it almost takes the pressure off because you're communicating to someone. I'm. I'm. I want this time with you. Then you can say to someone, okay, deal. I'm gonna like disappear into my work for the next few hours so that we can enjoy that time together. Or, you know, I'm gonna do this project for the next few hours. I'm gonna do this for a little while. And sometimes I think it's important to give a time period for it rather than saying like, you know, just putting your headphones in and doing that. And then you have the anxiety of are they hoping that I'll take my headphones out any minute and pay them attention again or whatever, saying to them like, all right, I'm gonna focus on this for a little while and then giving them a kiss. It's almost like you are giving them a kiss to kiss them goodbye for work. Like, you know, even if you're just turning to put your headphones in, all right, I'm gonna do this for a little while. I want to get this done so we can enjoy tonight. All right, let's go. It's like you're signaling something. And then, by the way, an hour later or something, if you take a quick break for a coffee or whatever, say, reinforce it. Say to them, I am so excited about our movie night tonight. Okay, gotta go. Yeah. And then, you know, like, you're. You're making sure that you communicate. That time is really special. That I want that to be special. But then you have to honor that. You've got to. Then in the times where you. You say you're gonna show up to spend really mindful time together, you gotta then. Show up for that. I know that I've been in situations in my life where I felt when when we had too much time apart me and whatever relationship I was in I would I would feel bad or I would feel unloved or anxious not necessarily because we were apart but because I didn't even feel close when we parted so we'd wake up in the morning and that person would go off for the day or I'd go off for my day. And it's not that we were apart for the day that would really bother me. Because if we felt close first thing in the morning, I'd be like, see you later. Great day. Like, listen, like, I'm excited about mine, too. But if you are starting the day from a position of not feeling close and then you part ways for the.

Day, you feel more disconnected.

Yeah. Or even more disconnected. Someone might feel anxiety that they're not loved, that they're not important, that they're not. So it compounds it. You earn the ability to take space or to go off and go into your own world by actually giving that person or sharing meaningful moments with that person before you do it.

It's not the amount of time, it's the quality of the time and the presence of your quality of time. I think that I find, which is most powerful, at least in my relationship, where I may only have a half hour to an hour of time a day, certain days, maybe right now, but my phone is not anywhere near me. I am looking in her eyes the whole time. I'm engaged asking questions. How's your mom? How's your family? How's this? What can I do for you? Can we play a game right now? Can we do something fun? Can we dance a little? It's the presence to the quality of time. And I'm sure the more time you have better, but it's got to be quality time from my personal experience. Are you finding that that's what I guess women and men want as well when you're coaching people.

Oh, these issues go both ways. You know, men can have the same insecurities as women can in these situations. And it comes down to which partner might feel busier, which one has got more to do right now. It could be like, it's a tough situation if one person in a relationship right now and they're living under the same roof feels like they've got tons to do and tons of purpose and tons, you know, like I can lose myself in my mission what I'm doing.

Right now on their partner and be fine. And your partner has lost a job or lost this or. Right.

Or I haven't figured out what my thing is yet. I don't know what, you know, you have your mission. I don't know what, like, what I'm saying.

What do I do?

I'm waiting for you to come home every day.

Yeah, right.

Yeah. I'm sitting here picking random hobbies out of thin air because I feel like everyone keeps telling me now's the time to learn a hobby.

So I'm like, should I learn guitar? Should I? Right. Or, or worse. I'm on social media watching everyone else's perfect relationship and everyone else thriving and I feel less than.

Yeah, exactly. And that, by the way, that's really, we've got to be really careful of that right now. We're used to comparing ourselves to others on social media through the lens of, you know, we're seeing their highlight reel.

Of.

Their life, you know, oh, they're traveling now, look at them sipping a beach on the cocktail, look at them doing this skydive, look at, we're seeing the highlight reel of their life. I think now we're seeing the highlight get rid of people's emotions. So in quarantine, people don't have that life, right? We've not got all of these activities that we could be doing, but we're all of a sudden seeing that moment where someone's just finished their yoga workout and they post and they're like, you know, I'm, you know, I got this quarantine, just did my yoga, blah, blah, blah.

And you're like, on the day.

Exactly. But, yeah, exactly. But you're not seeing like Matthew Hussey in the moment where he's like super grumpy and irritable and just like, today is not, this is not my day and I'm not feeling it today and I don't want to make a video today. And I've made a point of saying things like that out loud because I think it's important that people get the full spectrum of what other people are going through because guess what? Other people are going to dark places. other people are having their freakouts, other people are having those moments of depression or deep melancholy. People are having those, but it's not necessarily the things that they're posting about, especially in the worlds that we operate in, Lewis, where there's a hell of a lot of people wanting to show how well they're doing under circumstances, how positive they're being and so on.

Yeah. What would, what advice would you give to people that are feeling Really lonely because they just went through a breakup, whether it be the end of the year or months ago, or maybe, you know, they just went through a breakup this week in the middle of quarantine, and they're lonely, they're alone, they're emotionally hurt, and they're needing that kind of quick connection again. They're needing, they might go back to the person because they're feeling weak and they miss that feeling of connection or love or intimacy.

Yeah.

But they know it's not the right fit for them long term. They know. But this is in a heightened state of vulnerability for them that they go back quicker. What advice do you have to someone like that? Very hard.

I have so much. Firstly, a breakup even under normal circumstances is a tremendously difficult thing. True, true. I shouldn't say a breakup because there are many joyous breakups we go through. But I truly, when you experience true heartbreak, it is one of the most devastating feelings in the world.

Devastating!

You'Re a zombie.

You're dead inside.

And it's worse than you're dead inside. You act dead to everybody else inside. You feel like you're dying. Yeah.

That's true.

On loop all day.

You can't get out of it, yeah.

Yeah. Um, in a breakup, and this is as true now, now is no different. People need to, people need to recognize that now is just a difficult breakup on steroids. Right? If you're going through heartbreak right now, you're just doing it on steroids, but it's just the same emotions. So don't fret that, oh my God, why did it have to happen now when this was going on? That's, you're giving it a big story. It's still just the same emotions of heartbreak. You're just experiencing them in a heightened way.

And you don't have the ability to rebound physically with that person or a new person.

Which we could see as a gift.

Right. Why is that a gift?

Because there are plenty of things, as my brother Stephen Hussey, a wonderful writer for our website, As he says, in a breakup, there are two methods of recovery. There's the athlete recovery method and there's the hangover recovery method. You're gonna like this, Louis. Tell me, I love it. You haven't heard it before, but you're gonna love it because the analogy is perfect for you. I love it. The hangover recovery method, you think about how do people deal with a hangover? They wake up, they eat greasy foods because they're like, oh, I just need something to make me feel better. They watch crap TV, they lay on the sofa, they sleep.

Wake up at 2:00 PM, yeah.

Cut all the blinds, don't let any light in, eat ice cream. Essentially they do all of these things that are temporary kind of pleasure and comfort, but ultimately are not nutritional and are not the things that are needed to get, you know, what's needed. Massive amounts of hydration.

Water.

Go take a walk.

Sunshine. Right. Exercise.

Yeah, get the metabolism moving again. Get that like crap out of your system. Like that's all the stuff that's needed in that moment. But it's, it can feel harder to do the things that are actually going to get you out of it. Now look at the way an athlete recovers in an injury, right? You know better than anybody. You don't, firstly, you still train whatever you can train. You don't ignore everything simply because your shoulders injured, you do what you can.

You do some abs, you do some legs, you do something else.

Right. Let me keep a hand- Swiming, yeah. Exactly. You eat well, you get tons of rest, as much rest as you possibly can. You do rehab where necessary, but you don't do so much that it injures what you're doing.

Yeah, you reset your vision, you visualize what you want and start mentally rehearsing the reps, the the repetition, the action steps, you mental rehearse, you, you know, all those things, right?

So now if you apply that to a breakup, the hangover recovery method is let's go and sleep with other people quickly just to get my fix, just to feel connected, just to feel like I'm worth something, just to feel like I'm still sexy. Let me go out and drink, party, let me eat ice cream, bad food. Keep going to the gym.

Get on Tinder and all the apps.

Right. Or just hide away under the covers, don't engage life. It could be either or, but they're all hangover recovery methods because they don't make you feel better long term. They're just short term pleasure. The athlete recovery method in a breakup is you do the same as an athlete. You say, okay, my heart might be injured right now. My heart's offline, so to speak. But I still have everything else. So let me make sure the rest of my life is firing on all cylinders right now. Let me do everything. Let me be kind to myself. Let's maybe like put dating aside for the moment or put that. But let me go and make platonic connections. Let me go and build my relationships with my friends and family. Let me eat well, let me sleep well, let me train, let me go and do all of these things that train every other muscle in my life so that when my heart comes back online, Every other part of me is ready to go. So you've got one problem right now, you're in pain, right? But if that pain causes you to let every other part of your life go down spiral, now you've got six problems. So that's the part we want to avoid.

And only have one problem, not six.

And you know, look, all of this is easy to say, and when you're heartbroken, you just feel like, you feel so bad and so sick in your stomach and so nauseated all the time that you even hearing this sounds like a lot of work. And what I would say to people is a really manageable step is I, you know, there's that quote, emotions are weather. Let them let them come and go. Right. And that's true. Emotions are weather. I used to think that emotions were really important. A friend of mine, Jameson Jordan, who you know, who shoots my videos, he would always tell me whenever I would be in a real funk, a bad place, whatever, he, I would talk to him about it. He was one of the closest people to me. And I always remember he used to say to me, like, I just think you, like, think your emotions are more important than I feel like mine are.

You put more emphasis on.

Yeah, you, you, like, think they're really important.

You think your emotions are you?

Yeah, he would be like, you, you just seem to like, give more weight to your feelings than I do. And I, at the time, I didn't quite hear that. And over time, I've come to understand what that means. And of course, a lot of this is taught in mindfulness, training, meditation, so on. But that idea that just because you have a thought, just because you have an emotion, it doesn't make it important. And in a heartbreak, just because you miss your partner, that doesn't actually make that feeling that important, just because you feel hurt and you feel like, oh my God, I'll never find anyone like that again. That's just a thought and an emotion that's attached to that thought and it doesn't make it that important. And so when I was going through terrible times, when I've gone through heartbreak, one of the key lessons I learned was, okay, there's really cloudy skies right now. That's the weather, right? And it feels like that weather will never pass. But what I would begin to pay attention to is, I would realize that, I would realize, oh, for the last 20 minutes, I didn't think about my breakup.

Hmm.

Huh.

Small wins.

I'd be like, yeah, and often you only notice it after the fact. Because when you're in it, it could be that you're in a flow state with your work and that's taken you out of it. It could be that you're having a funny moment with a friend. It could be that you lost yourself in a movie. It could be you just had a conversation with your brother, your mother, whoever.

A workout, yeah.

For a few minutes. Even if it's just five, for five minutes you noticed, I felt better. I felt, maybe I didn't feel amazing, but I just, for five minutes, I didn't feel like I was dying.

I didn't feel so great.

And when that happens, here's what I would say to myself. I'd be like, Well, that's interesting. Notice those things as interesting. And this applies not just to heartbreak, but to depression, to anxiety, to all sorts of different emotions that are undesirable. When you notice that for five minutes of your day, you didn't feel that thing. Because here's what happens. We have our, like, whatever is our home, whether it's depression, heartbreak, anxiety, sadness, we have our home that we go to.

Yeah.

90% of our day. And when we feel that, we focus on it so intensely that it becomes very difficult to get out of it because we are focused on that 90% the whole time. And what we don't acknowledge is this interesting window in the day where we didn't feel that. And that window has some clues, has some, there's some truth often in that window, that 5% of the day where you felt all right, There's some truth there that's waiting to be discovered, enlarged, held under a microscope. And what I would do is when I would feel better for five minutes, I'd go, well, okay, so what did that, if nothing else, what did that prove? It proved that it's possible for me to feel better. I had a reference point for the fact that I could feel better. And then you go, well, if I felt better for five minutes, If I even felt better for a minute, let's make more of those. What was happening? How did I do it? I might not be able to get my day to the point where I even feel good for a quarter of the day right now. That might be an unrealistic goal. But if I had one good minute or one good hour, let me make the new goal not to be great or to be happy or to get over this. Just make more of those.

Yeah. And multiply those moments, multiply those minutes into five and 10 and 20 minutes.

It's a manageable task. Suddenly, getting over your heartbreak, you need to get over it, dude, you know, blah, blah, blah. It's not, this isn't, that's not practical advice for someone who's going through hell. But for someone who realizes that just for five minutes, the clouds parted and they go, oh my God.

It's like, it's like one of my favorite movies, swingers. where Mikey is always thinking about his ex and who he left, and then now she won't come back to him six months ago or whatever, and he's constantly talking about it, obsessing about it, suffering in pain, and then he finally learns to just put his attention somewhere else for a few minutes and then put it for an hour, and then he goes on a date with someone, and then he thought about her for a day and he was like, wow, can you I didn't talk about her all today, you know?

And here's what's so important about that, because there's a, what's really interesting about that movie is he begins to do these things that slowly start to create more moments of good weather in his day.

He goes salsa dancing, he does this, he does activities. Yeah. Right.

But what we have to be aware of, you have to respect whatever is the drug, whether it's your ex, Whether it's genuinely a drug or booze or whether it's a situation that makes you feel bad or whatever, often when we start to create more good weather, we start to take for granted that the bad weather can't appear now. It's like, oh, I'm past it.

Yeah, it could come back. A storm could come raging through again.

Someone, your ex could text you and if you text back and start engaging, knowing, knowing what happens that you're, when you start in a conversation with that person again, you're going to spiral. You're not respecting the drug. You got, you might have been clean for months or years, but you gotta respect the drug because it's, what you don't is when you, when you get cocky and you don't remember that there are rituals and routines and practices daily. that got you to this good state, you are liable to fall back into that trap because you're blind. Don't be blind. Don't be afraid. It's not about fear. You're not fearful. You're not worried. Because, you know, if I didn't die at the height of my breakups pain, if I didn't die on day two, I'm not going to die on day 22 or day 52 or day 1002. If I could deal with this at the height of its pain, I'm not going to die now. So I'm not going to be afraid of this, but I'm also going to and know that there are certain things that make me feel better in my day and I have to consciously put them into my day because the moment I take for granted that I just feel better, that's when that thing starts creeping.

Yeah, exactly. I'm laughing so hard because we have a mutual friend that we've been helping, I won't say his name, but we've been helping navigate certain things in their, you know, their relationship. And, you know, it just reminded me of that, of replying to people when they text you, when you think you're good, hey, don't go back into that. Make sure you stay true to what you want, what you're committed to by in the athlete mindset of envisioning something that you want for your future and envisioning the right relationship or the better match or, you know, how you want to be feeling and all those things.

And by the way, and just remember, and this is true not just for people going through heartbreak right now, but people going through Solitude right now, because there's a lot of people who right now are just in attitude. They're not necessarily heartbroken, but they are experiencing a deep kind of existential loneliness. And when we're on our own for long periods of time, many people, not everyone, but many people, and perhaps even most, have more of a tendency to go to dark places with their thoughts. Yeah. And there's a lot of people that are there that are listening to us right now that certainly can't. That, you know, the I, you know, some people might be in a hell with someone in the house. But these people in solitude are looking at that guy and I'll take that right now over the hell I'm in of being constantly on my own and going out of my mind. I would say to people that, you know, the same weather rule applies that, you know, you might feel really kind of dark and lonely at points in your day, but there are other points in your day where you don't notice the good weather and pay attention to the good weather and what made you feel good. Did you just have a conversation with one of your siblings? Did you have a little group chat with a bunch of friends? Did you watch a life affirming movie? Did you read a book that made you feel connected to an author from some period in time? Maybe who was also alone and writing about it? And by reading that author, you go, oh my God, I feel, you know, someone else is having the same experience as me. I think that's really important is if you're in solitude right now on your own, you, Connect to other people who have experienced that because some of the greatest figures of all time have spent inordinate amounts of time alone, have experienced the darkness that you're experiencing, and you're in good company. You may feel you're alone and oh man, we have this solipsistic attitude that only one who's alone, we know it's not rationally true, we know it's not logically true, but we feel it on an emotional level. Those are moments where you have to remind yourself, I'm in good company, not just today, but throughout time. Key figures, brilliant people, people that are far more brilliant than this will ever be, have experienced the deepest, darkest, existential loneliness. And in a way, there's a, there is something slightly romantic about that. I always love when I read an author and I hear that author who's brilliant and who I love. And I, you know, I was just reading Bertrand Russell and you, and then you hear about something that someone suffers with or something that they've gone through and you go, thank God, this person that I love also, you know, also, you know, there's, there's that element of it that's really, really powerful. And so I, I think that you, you can adopt. Yes. Accept that it's difficult. It is difficult. Don't look at, don't look at other people and think they're handling it so well. It is difficult. I, I'd call my dad at times when business is hard and business was messy and like chaotic and I screwed up or I'd lost money or I'd done something, I'd call my dad and I'd be like, you know, my dad's one of my big mentors and I'd call him and say, Dad, like, I'm just so stressed, I'm so overwhelmed, this is happening, this is going wrong, I've got 10 people asking me for this, whatever, and he'd say, Matt, part of the problem is you don't think that other people's businesses are just as messy. You, you're, it's almost like you think that you're struggling with all these things and other people aren't. He said, Matt, I've been in business for, you know, 40 years. Business is messy. That is the nature of it. It is messy. It is chaotic. There are always things going wrong as well as things going right. It. Right. That's the nature. That's how it is supposed to be. And when I, when he would say that to me, I would, it, it didn't take my problems away. But what it made me realize is, oh, it's all right. It's not, this is normal. I'm on top of my problems. I'm beating myself up and taking it personally that I'm doing a horrible job. Yeah.

It's kind of like your dad and Jamison are saying the same thing. Your feelings are more important. Your mess is more important.

It's, yeah, I don't give it so much power and B, and don't give your feelings and emotions so much power. Not every emotion is a cue to do something.

Yeah.

Yeah. At the same time, Accept that this is your view that in the Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck talked about, I think one of the first line of his book is life is hard. And one of the things that makes life more difficult for us is that we expect it to be easy. Well, that's true of relationships, it's true of business, it's true of everything. And when we have someone close to us who says, you're all right, you're at home on your own right now, and you feel like, it's dark and lonely and you're having these kind of existential thoughts and you're welcome. That's normal. That's. Of course you do. You're living at home on your own in isolation right now. Of course you're feeling these things. You're not a screw up. You're not weak. You're not handling it terribly because you're having these thoughts. That is absolutely normal. And that's what makes it heroic, is that. you're having all these thoughts and you're having all these feelings, but you're in the company of wonderful people throughout history who have experienced this, who have had just as bad a time, who were dealing with it no better than you. But in that company, you can kind of then assume your hero's journey and go, yeah, well, my personal hell right now, I'm gonna keep going anyway.

We need these adversities to teach us things too. You know, we don't learn about how to be the best version of ourselves and grow through everything being easy and all the success coming to us. We learn through challenge, through adversity. And I'm not saying you need to suffer in the adversity and challenge. It's already going to be hard. A breakup is already hard, but you don't need to add to the suffering like you said and multiply the amount of pain. I want to ask you a personal question that you probably only talk about at your retreats. So, I want to give people a taste of Matthew Hussey that you probably share to only a select few women who invest and show up to your retreats where they really get to dive in and ask you the juicy questions.

I'm curious.

And, I'm not, you can't, no one can come to your retreats right now, but later in the year, I think you'll have more retreats and they can go to MatthewHussey.com and and learn about your retreats because I hear they're mind-blowing for women so if you want to learn how to master relationships as a woman go to these Retreats go to matthewhussy.com and sign up for them how.

To.

Get the guy.com for everything else.

And I'll also let people know something they can do right now as well because I know people are stuck at home and they'll want something that they can Perfect, perfect.

Okay, here's the personal question. What is the biggest challenge that Matthew Hussey faces single and the biggest challenge you face being in a relationship? That you still need to, you know you need to overcome and improve or maybe you're not as, I wish I wasn't that way, not proud of myself in these times when I do this. What is the personal thing that Matt Hussey has to do or needs to do to improve when single and when in relationship?

I think, look, I'm someone who has always, I've always craved real connection for as long as, you know, I've liked girls, you know, 12 years old. Yeah, I've always liked it and it's not that I don't go through the same things other people do where you wonder when you're with someone, am I with the right person? Is this the right thing? Do I need, you know, all of that? But I've always really liked connection and sometimes that connection, you know, I know in my past that desire for connection has led me to relationships that weren't right for me, you know, weren't relationships I should have been in. But they were wonderful people. They were lovely and they were...

There were great moments and great connection.

Yeah, and they treated me wonderfully and, you know, and that led me to kind of go, well, maybe this is the thing, you know, but without necessarily seeing if it was what I needed, whether it was really the relationship that I was going to continue to I've had to grow in and develop myself and whether it was truly kind of, I guess, meeting all my needs and whether I was meeting all of their needs. So I think that over time, I settled for some relationships that I shouldn't have, where I was just valuing the connection over what my long term needs were going to be. and I knew that it worked today or this year, but if I really thought about it in 10 years or 20 years, it wasn't going to be the relationship that was right for me long term. So there was that. And that has so within a relationship, some of the struggles I've had in the past have been too much question. too much time questioning whether it's the worst feeling, man. So exhausting.

The worst. When you think I've had this in my past relationships where every day I would think and question myself for 30 minutes, am I supposed to be in this? Is this the right thing? Should I end it? How am I going to end it? But this is good. But this is that just debate. Internal debate is exhausting, like you said.

That'S right. And so that sapped a lot of energy from me. A lot of times when I would have liked to have actually had more energy to pour into, you know, either the right relationship or my business or friends or whatever, but it was being sapped by me constantly waking up every day and going, is this the right thing? Should I be here? Should I not? And that's you're just fighting yourself constantly. so I, I think there were things that I allowed to go on too long that I, I should have, I should have seen things sooner or rather, perhaps more accurately paid attention to what I had said.

Because you saw them.

Yeah, I saw them.

They were there. You were aware. You just weren't right. Actively paying attention and taking action on the attention.

That's right. And, and so much of what I've been able to, to teach people and share with people has not been coming from a righteous place, but I've been experiencing things intensely. I'm a very sensitive person and I'm someone who emotionally feels a lot. You know, I so I the reason I can relate to a lot of people is because I feel things very intensely for better or worse. Sometimes I wish I didn't. Sometimes I see it as a as a gift. It depends on the day you ask me, but But that, I think, has been a big thing for me in the past. And actually, I think I'm much better now at saying, I won't allow myself to slip into something that's the wrong thing. I am much more conscious about the decisions that I make.

You won't make a long-term commitment on short-term feelings if, you know, it's not at least setting you up for the best chance yeah.

And careful.

I'm trying.

I try to be more careful with what I say. I try to be more careful to. To be. To have integrity in. In the promises that I make or to not make a promise simply because it's what someone wants to hear, you know, but to. But to say what's true, even if that's difficult. And that's hard. That's not.

I'm not so hard to say something painful.

Yeah. I don't want anyone to think that I'm on my high horse about that because I fail that test. a lot and I'm doing my best always to try to be more of that man that I want to be in that respect. In terms of being single, I think the challenge for me is ironically, ironically it's meeting people. Yeah.

It's probably not hard for you to meet people, but you just mean what? Quality people, you mean the right people?

Perhaps not even quality people, but just... You are introverted.

People don't know that you're extremely introverted. Introverted.

I am introverted, although a huge part of my career has been showing people how to build the skills of the extrovert.

And you've had to overcome that in order to get what you want.

Yeah, I've done that my whole life. So when someone sees me on TV, people, people who don't know me like you, Louis, think that that's a joke when I say it, or that I'm pandering to some image to make people feel better.

Oh, it's real. No, it's real.

But he doesn't leave the house unless he gets to. Well, but that's changed. That's changed in recent years. That's a, I'm, I'm. I made a conscious effort to change that. But when I go on stage, I'm an extrovert. When I step out on TV, I'm an extrovert. Right now, when I was talking, I'm an extrovert. I know how to turn that on when I want to. And I've learned that over time. And I think that no introvert should use being an introvert as an excuse to not learn those skill sets. Which is why the whole suite of programs I have is about showing people how to do that. But it's not so much that my introversion is the tricky part about being single because I know how to overcome that to go and meet people. It's more that I have to go back to, you know, it's funny that a huge amount of what I do is I show people how to meet people in real life. Because that's actually my reality is that I don't have the tools available to me that a lot of people have available to them. It's not, I haven't, I've chosen not to. I never say never, but I don't think it's advisable for me to get.

On Bumble or Tinder or whatever.

Yeah. Or whatever. I don't think that that's advisable because I don't know. I think it would be, that would be a tricky experience for me. So then, you know, the way other people are sitting at home in their pajamas meeting people, I don't really have that. The only way I'm going to meet someone is actually by going out is either if I get approached online somehow.

Yep.

Through whatever social media or if I go out and create activities. Now, activities require time and they require energy. And one of the things that this is something that that I'm super interested in right now is I just read this book, I just read this book by Bertrand Russell or this essay by Bertrand Russell on it was called In Praise of Idleness. And Bertrand Russell essentially makes this case. He was a very controversial and lucid thinker in his time and amazing individual, very learned, He made this argument for the fact that we should all work four hours a day. Four hours of intense focused work a day. And then the rest of the day, he said, should be used for active leisure, what he called active leisure. He describes passive leisure as sitting in front of a movie.

I call that strategic messing around. Active leisure is like you're strategically messing around.

He would, yeah, I imagine he would like that term because, because he, because he was very much into the idea of play. He was very much into the idea of going and involving yourself in things, whether they're sports, whether they're activities, whether it's cooking, whether it's practicing something, learning something, going places, just being in nature and noticing things, writing, reading. These are, these are active leisure and this is a thought that I'm glad you asked me about this, Louis, because I'm progressing this thought right now and it's something that I invite people to think about with me. I don't have a solid answer yet because I'm literally, I've read this book this week and it really made me attach to my own content in a way that I thought was really interesting. I have for a long time been to be calling people out on them saying, I have work and I do this and I do that. So I never meet anyone because I have no time. And I, I look at it and I'm like, okay, it's true that those things are excuses and that we have to create time. But time is only as good as your energy. And if what a lot of us are experiencing myself included, because I don't, like I said, I don't have those that way of just meeting people online from my bed at night because I like finish work at nine o'clock and now I'm going to lay in bed and meet some people. Yeah, I don't really have, it's hard for me to do that. So I'm back to kind of where we were 30 years ago where it's like, oh, I've got to live a life that brings me into contact with other people. And that is, could be classed as a form of active leisure. But that active leisure requires energy. And if it's so exhausted by our day that the only thing we have the energy to do is watch a series on Netflix is to sit and watch Tiger King, you know, or Ozark.

Yeah, I watched both of them. I watched both of them.

No, no, dude, I love it. But that's the thing.

Amazing.

At the end of the day, that's like the, like, the only thing I want to do is sit. I don't even want to read. Why is it when I go on vacation, I used to like, go on vacation, I'd be like, I've read three books this week. What the hell? Like, I love reading. I get so much out of it. It does so much for my life, so much for my mind. We're only having this conversation about this right now because I read a book this week. Why do I read three books on vacation and not at home? It's easy to say because you had more time. It's not because I had more time. It's because I had more energy. Because my useful hours were not on vacation being used for work. Because even if I finish at 7 pm, like, you could say, well, you've got four hours to read before bed. It doesn't really energy.

You need time to unwind. You need. Yeah.

So I read on vacation because I have energy to read. Now it becomes active, not passive Leisure time. And what I'm fascinated by about this quarantine is that not all not all people are finding themselves with this. There are plenty of parents with kids who are finding themselves with even less time and energy than before because now they're homeschooling in addition to doing their jobs and looking after their worrying about their elderly parents and so on. So it's false to say that everyone has more time right now. But there are a segment of people that have found themselves with more time and what they're enjoying is not necessarily having more time. What they're enjoying is having more energy for active leisure. And now they're like, wow, I'm doing all these things. They're almost dreading the time when they have to go back to work because they're worried, I'm enjoying these things I get to do right now. But what they're really saying is, I'm enjoying the energy available to do these things. Because often, even when it gets to the weekend, I'm too exhausted to do anything. So apply that through the lens of dating. And what you see is a lot of people are not meeting people. This is what I'm, I know I'm talking so much, Louis, but I've got so much, my brain is so creative right now. I've got so many things bouncing around.

I just turned a bad mood day into a good mood day.

It's, well, of course, what makes some good mood day is flow states, losing yourself in moments, in thoughts, in ideas. And that's why we need more time, more energy, more energy to do that. those things. So through the dating lens.

Yes. People looking to date right now. Yeah.

I'm really curious about how people can you, how people can start to see that, okay, it might not be your fault that you're not meeting a lot of people. Because it's not just tied into your dating life, it's tied into everything. How hard you're working or how much exhaustion you experience working, you would never imagine actually has a tremendous impact on your ability and your dating life, in your ability to flirt, in your ability to go and take on new activities. Because you don't have the energy. No, you don't.

Now you have the creative energy to go out and say, okay, I'm gonna approach this person online and do a special FaceTime.

That's that.

And then do something creative.

The irony is right now people have more energy to date, but it's harder to date because they're at home. John John Kay wrote this book called Obliquity about how results are achieved indirectly. So if you want to get rich, don't focus on making money, focus on all the things that provide a valuable service, that add something to the world, that give you time to think. And that's what makes you, quote, rich financially. It's not focusing on getting rich. And the same is true of our dating lives. It's all of those things that we don't even associate with our dating lives that have a tremendous impact. on our dating lives, whether it's, you know, reading books and now you have something to talk about on a date. Who would know that reading Bertrand Russell's essay on Empraise of Idleness would have an impact on how interesting you are on a date? Well, it does, because now you can have, this is a date, right? We're on a date, we're having a conversation, we've got plenty to talk about.

Because I read a book this week. Because I'm making myself more interesting by.

Learning, by practicing something. And who would think that reducing your workload or that Saying no to more is going to have an impact on whether you meet the love of your life. Not through any direct reason, but indirectly because saying no to more means you have more energy, which means you have more time for active leisure, which means you're putting yourself in more situations where you might meet someone. You do join that running club. You do go to that evening lecture. You do join that cooking course where you just happen to meet someone.

Yeah, I think Tony Robbins with the one to say this, that the key to a successful relationship is creativity and caring. And it's the amount of your creativity and the amount of your caring towards someone else and focusing on them, their needs, being creative towards it. And hopefully that will be reciprocated so that they're caring and creative with your needs and your attention and your time. It's the ability to do both. And if you are not If you're caring but you're not creative, you're eventually going to lose that spark, energy, intimacy, desire. It takes both and you're the expert. So, I don't know if it takes more than that as well, but obviously I think you've got to be creative when you're trying to find some of the date. If you're not creative, why would they date you just on how you look?

One of the most valuable things I did this year was to go with you to Poland, which you very kindly invited me to, to be part of that little tribe. And it was one of the most valuable things, not for the obvious reasons that people would think that, look, you're overcoming something tremendously difficult by doing this immersion work in the cold, in the ice and snow. It was one of the most valuable things I did, because at the beginning of the year, instead of racing, into my work instead of racing into all of these, the treadmill of another year. We took a week, put the phones away, and we just had time to think, to talk, to listen to other people with other businesses, with other points of view, and to do something that was different to anything I would normally do. That sparks creativity like nothing else. And one of the reasons that we get stuck in business is because all we do is our business. Yeah. One of the reasons we get stuck in our relationship is because we're not doing anything new. We're not actually, we're not, it's not like you need to shake things up. No, it's not about shaking things up. It's just about giving yourself like something, something new to engage a part of your brain that you don't normally engage. It's why a couple that decides to like, go dancing for the night who normally would think that's embarrassing and awkward and wouldn't normally do it, find that it changes something. It changes something in the relationship for a couple of days. We don't give ourselves new things to think about enough. And we're traversing between business and love and everything here, but I think your audience, I know they love that, as I do as well. I, for many years, Louis, I was in, you know, I would say no to many, many things outside of the direct scope of my company because I would see that as me being laser focused on growing this thing that I really cared about. And I would see anything else that wasn't to do with that as a distraction. It had a very utilitarian approach. And meanwhile, I would see my brothers painting and cooking and doing other things like writing and they would explore other interests. And I, it's not that I didn't for one second look down on that. I just thought, oh, I, but I need to focus myself a thousand percent on this if I'm gonna get to where I want to be. I've come to look at that as focus is a strength, but it can also be a weakness because It stops you from doing other things that would actually give you a different level of creativity in that core thing that's really interesting to you. And if you never do anything outside the scope of what you do, you're going to find quickly you don't have a lot to say. And that's a problem. Sometimes you have to do something new. It doesn't even matter what it is necessarily. It just matters that it takes your brain to a different train of thought, a different idea, a different moment. I had a hamster when I was a kid and my dad once, I used to keep his cage all neat and tidy, right? And it was the only pet I had. I think I was like nine years old or something. It was the only pet I had because my dad was allergic to everything else. And I had this hamster, I used to keep his cage really tidy. And my dad, one day I come home from school and the hamster wheel was just turned on its side and the hamster's just standing there staring at it. And I looked over at my dad and I was like, why is his wheel like that? I was kind of annoyed. I was like, that's his wheel. He's supposed to run on it. Why is it on its side? And my dad said, oh, I turned it up. I turned it on its side. Why? Why'd you do that? He goes, Give him something to think about. And I thought, he goes, he's in his, he literally said, he's in his cage. My dad doesn't like any kind, I today feel the same way, but even back then my dad was like, why is he in a cage? Why do we have these things in cages or whatever? My dad said, he's in his cage all day. He has nothing else to do. It's the same wheel, same thing, same f***. Everything's the same. I gave him something to think about today. I, at the time, I didn't get it. And I look back down, I laugh, but it's, we're not like sometimes we're so used to getting our house exactly the way we know it all the time and having the wheel just turning the same way. Sometimes turning the wheel on its side and giving yourself something else to think about is one of the most valuable things you could do for your life, for your relationship, for your mental health, for your creativity, for everything.

Mmm. Loving this man. This has been powerful stuff. And if people want more, they can go to howtgetttheguy.com and do you have something you can give people or an opt-in for?

I'm doing something right now. Look, I have a membership that a lot of people are a part of and a lot of people just don't know about. And every month I'm doing webinars on that membership. My dad is doing webinars on that membership. My brother is doing webinars. And And the whole idea of this membership is called the Love Life Membership. And the idea behind it is twofold. It's going to help your love life, but it's also going to show you how to love life. The reason this is so important is precisely because of what we've already talked about, that the results in life are often best achieved not just directly, but indirectly. So we're going to give you all of the things you need, whether you're single or in a relationship, to make the best of your situation, your love life, and to create the life that you want there. But it's also much bigger in scope than that. It's about showing you how to love your life as well. And we have webinars literally coming up in the next two weeks that people can join as long as they're a member. And I have given people a way to do it risk free. We've got a 14 day free window where people can sign up today, ask me a question and sign up. And their question will be in the running for some question that I'm going to answer on the next webinar. And that's our So if you go to askmh.com, you'll get the chance to ask a question that I'll try to answer on my next webinar and B, you'll be able to sign up for free for 14 days. So even if you just joined for 14 days and do a couple of webinars for free and then cancel, you can do that, but you'll see the value in it at least.

Amazing. And for the Americans listening or watching, that's askmh.com. A-S-K-M-H. askmh.com yes and if you want to follow one of the best YouTube channels in the world on any subject go to Matthew Hussey's YouTube channel I think you're almost at 2 million subscribers.

Over there now it's if I I'm hoping we will have hit that by the time this is out this this is pretty crazy I haven't checked that number in a long time and then someone just mentioned to me the other day like you're about to hit two mil.

I was like, oh, that's amazing, man. It's amazing. It's honestly one of the most creative channels, best content, most thought out. It's amazing. Even if you're a dude and you're not looking to get the guy, it's just great relationship advice, life advice, all that stuff.

So make sure to subscribe there. When men say, like, do you, does your advice apply to us as well? I'm like, what do you think I'm.

Using all day, every day?

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Literally, I'm, this is, this may well as well be a diary of everything I'm learning in my life because I'm learning all of this with you guys. So I'm loving it. And I'm trying this year to just be a more, a more vulnerable version of myself, I suppose, because I, I want, you know, I want people to know I'm on the path with them. This is not, you're not joining my membership to be lectured to. You're joining my membership to become a part of a, a a community of people that all are take growth, their own growth really, really seriously, myself included.

Yeah, everyone's on the journey. Thank you for opening up and sharing your journey. We, we covered a lot about living with someone in isolation who's in a relationship, if you're long distance or if you're broke up with someone recently, how to navigate that. Also how to look for love while in this time right now. Make sure you guys check out Ask mh.com. subscribe to his YouTube channel. Follow him on social media. Some of the best social media content as well. I mean, I love your videos and content over there. So check out Matthew, guys.

Matthew, you're the man. I appreciate you, brother. Thanks for having me. Can't wait till we hug it out soon, man. Yeah, I look forward to it.

For those of you who haven't had a hug from Lewis Howes, the man gives, like, top three hugs in the world. I love it, man. Thank you, brother. All right, man. Thank you so much for watching this interview with Matthew Hussey. If you more on relationships, love, sex, lust and all things intimacy. Check out this interview with Devon Franklin. There's more collective time than ever because.

Even in a relationship, we each need.

Our own time in order to bring.

Something stronger and greater to the relationship.