You’re About to Be Alone With Someone You Don’t Know | Ep 56
Create More Intimacy: A Podcast for MenShow Notes
You built a life together. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, the two of you quietly stopped connecting. Not dramatically. Not with one defining moment. Just a slow drift that neither of you fully named.
If you are in your late forties or fifties and the kids are older or almost gone, this episode is going to land somewhere specific.
In this episode, we cover:
How disconnection starts long before it is visible, and what keeps it hidden
What busyness has been protecting you from noticing
The stories men tell themselves that keep the distance in place
What she has been experiencing while you were managing and providing
Why this particular moment in life feels so heavy when the marriage has thinned out
What is actually possible from here, and what it honestly requires
This is episode 56 in the Create More Intimacy podcast for men. Part of a four-part series on the deeper patterns underneath intimacy and connection.
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