How to get more emotional intimacy from your partner

Name: How to get more emotional intimacy from your partner
Uploaded: 2024-11-28T11:00:23+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Vanessa Marin
Description: A short YouTube video by Vanessa Marin offering practical strategies to encourage emotional expression and intimacy from (often male) partners. The clip…

28 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Vanessa Marin offering practical strategies to encourage emotional expression and intimacy from (often male) partners. The clip highlights using familiar, emotionally expressive contexts—particularly sports fandom—as an entry point to discuss feelings and model emotional language.

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If your male partner is into sports, this is probably the best way. The best way in. You can be like, hey, I know you might not recognize this, but I see you express a lot of emotion around their sports team right there. Hey, just last week, when your team lost, like, I noticed you talking about how bummed or sad you were. Maybe felt angry about X, Y and Z and it's like, angry again or they won. Hey, you were. You were so happy and you were talking about it, and I think that it's just reminding them that is talking about your feelings.