Why Men Struggle With Intimacy

Do you or someone you love struggle with intimacy?

Intimacy is the glue of any relationship. It’s what keeps us together through good and bad times, solidifies us as partners, and allows us to grow and develop both individually and as a team. To experience all of the other wonderful things that a relationship provides -- trust, closeness, acceptance and belonging -- a certain healthy level of intimacy is absolutely necessary. However, when you or your male partner struggle with intimacy, it can feel painful and disappointing for both of you. You find yourself feeling very close to each other, until you hit a wall where your communication just breaks down and you find yourself wondering “what just happened? How did we get here?” The reassuring news is that a solution for these common intimacy struggles is within your reach.

With this course, you’ll be guided through some of the main reasons people struggle with intimacy, and you’ll learn great new ways to open up more self-awareness, communication, and connection with your partner. You’ll discover how to:

• Uncover what intimacy means for you; your intimacy language.
• Gain insight into what intimacy means for your partner.
• Discover the past experiences with intimacy that may be affecting you or your partner currently.
• How to make positive steps towards greater connection and closeness.
• Create a healthy self-narrative around your ability to be intimate.
• Expand your emotional vocabulary and expression.
• Identify your intimacy needs.
• Create a common intimacy language with your partner.
• Become a supportive partner to someone struggling with intimacy.

Over a period of 7 days, you’ll receive a new lesson daily that will open up new ways of examining and addressing intimacy struggles. Each lesson will provide you with expert insights, tools, and highly beneficial journaling homework to help you practice the skills you’ve learned so you can apply them to your own relationship.

You’ll explore topics that include:

Lesson 1: What is Intimacy to You?
You’ll discover how to identify what your intimacy language is, as well as how to acknowledge your partner’s intimacy language so you can create a loving and effective communication style.

Lesson 2: Parental Modeling
You’ll uncover some early childhood modeling experiences of how you saw adults expressing intimacy to help you to understand how you and your partner were “set up” to see and express intimacy in the way you do currently.

Lesson 3: Formative Experiences
Using the wisdom gleaned from your lived experience, you’ll do an intimacy experience history to identify how your past experiments and experiences may be affecting your present ability to be intimate.

Lesson 4: Tweak your Self-Narrative
Every day, you are living out a self-narrated story of our lives. In this lesson, you’ll uncover the self-narratives around intimacy that you’re living out daily, and will learn how to change your narrative if it’s not working for you.

Lesson 5: Becoming Emotionally Articulate
You’ll learn about your “emotional vocabulary” and how it can be expanded to communicate more effectively with your partner.

Lesson 6: Intimate Communication
Moving into the growth phase of the course, you’ll learn effective tools to recognize when the ‘intimacy struggle’ is a result of miscommunication, and how to create a common language so that both partner’s intimacy needs can be communicated and acknowledged.

Lesson 7: Deepening Your Intimacy
This lesson will show you how to apply what you’ve learned from this course into your daily life. You’ll be building an intimacy practice to strengthen and develop your new self-awareness.

Remember, by taking this course, you’ll discover an important list of personal areas of growth that are completely unique to you and your partner. Practicing these things is exactly what you need right now to step into a more conscious and aware version of yourself. Your conscious effort and consistency in practicing healthy emotional skills will certainly change your relationship and life for the better -- so let’s get you started!