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# The Truth About Intimacy That Nobody Tells Men

Brother, I need to tell you something I learned the hard way, and it might save you years of pain.

The intimacy you think is possible? It's nowhere near what's actually available to you.

Most men are walking around thinking they understand connection. They don't. They're operating at 10% capacity and calling it a relationship.

The kind of intimacy I'm talking about changes how you walk through the world. It heals old wounds. It moves trauma out of your body. It gives you real confidence—the kind that shows up as calm, grounded presence. The kind people feel when you enter a room.

There's one requirement for that level of intimacy:

Safety.

Not romance. Not communication skills. Not date nights.

Safety.

# Here's the uncomfortable part most men miss:

Most women have never felt emotionally safe. Not consistently. Not deeply.

Women live with a baseline sense of unsafety that most men never experience.

When was the last time you felt physically threatened by a woman? For most of us, the answer is never.

For women? It's Tuesday.

Elevators. Parking garages. Long hallways. First dates. Every new man is a question mark.

So when she enters a relationship, her nervous system is already on alert. And every time you react to her emotions, her body logs you as unsafe.

She might not say anything. But her nervous system does.

Over time, your presence becomes something she braces against.

That's not intimacy. That's tolerance.

# The real test is simple:

When your partner is emotional, does she feel safer as the conversation goes on, or more guarded?

You don't need to answer me. Just be honest with yourself.

Most men see emotions as a threat. As an attack. As something to defend against or fix.

Wrong.

Her emotions are communication. And every time you react to them instead of regulate, you're telling her body: "I'm not safe."

# Here's what changed everything for me:

When she's emotional, I breathe. I slow down. I regulate myself.

I stop defending.

I stop correcting.

I stop reacting.

I get curious.

"What's going on?"

"Tell me more."

"What else is there?"

The more emotional she gets, the better. That means energy is moving. Something is being released.

When she's done, I don't fix anything. I thank her.

I thank her for trusting me.

For her vulnerability.

For letting me see her.

That's containment.

And when a woman feels held like that, something changes.

She relaxes. She softens. She opens.

When she can surrender emotionally, she can surrender to you. She can feel more with you. She can trust you. She can desire you.

# And if she doesn't want to have sex with you?

It's not a preference. It's a symptom.

Her nervous system doesn't feel safe.

And no amount of initiating, negotiating, or being nice will override that.

Sex doesn't disappear because she doesn't desire you. Sex disappears because her body can't relax with you.

Everything changed when I stopped trying to fix her emotions and started regulating myself. When I learned to stay grounded while she was emotional. When I held my center instead of leaking it.

That's masculine containment.

Containment creates safety.

Safety allows softening.

Softening allows desire.

#The red-pill crowd has it backwards:

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Scientifically, this destroys connection. It heightens fear. It blocks the social openness required for healthy relationships.

What women actually want isn't complicated:

- Kindness

- Humor

- Stability

- Communication

- Safety

- A man who shows up

None of this requires wealth or status. It requires you to get in your body, regulate your nervous system, and build the capacity to hold space under emotional pressure.

Women of nostr, am I right or wrong here?

Men of nostr, you might wanna listen up...

#masculinity #relationships #intimacy #emotionalintelligence #bitcoin #nostr #grownostr

Intimacy is allowing access to your soul

Yet we are caught between seeking and fearing intimacy in our relationships

We seek intimacy because our soul wants to be seen

Our soul want to be seen so that it can experience itself through the other

So that it can connect to other souls and to the world soul

We fear intimacy because we have not learned about souls

We do not know how we should be intimate with them

So our souls get hidden away for fear they will be misunderstood or taken advantage of

Belittled to the point where we forget all about them like they never even existed

Souls! Don't be so foolish child, and our soul withers to nothingness

But if we are lucky some event, person or experience reaches the depths

Where our dormant soul lays and rekindles it's desire to be seen again

And if we are lucky, as we recall this feeling we will realise we can choose

Whether to open the door to the soul

Or to close it shut where at least it will be safe

There is no right or wrong to living with or without soul

We must each act according to our circumstance

But for those who choose to live with soul

We must learn how to be intimate without fear

So that our souls remain open to seeing those souls locked away

Capital controls are coming...

The things we write and post are also a communication of something to ourselves, which we can listen to and use for self learning and self healing. We need not be alone with ourselves if we can learn to listen to what is going on inside. gn

And then, even in Switzerland, how can you be sure your vote gets counted. Votes get entered into computers, aggregated, passed between computers. And, as in the Digital ID vote, come out so close, that one really doesn’t know. Is it plausible? „They“ have decided to move Switzerland into the realm of EU. No more freedom, no more anonymous money, no more independence (had to take sides with NATO against Ukraine). Sad.

But even if the votes weren’t rigged. Democracy doesn’t really work. (Mencken)

1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty."

2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness."

3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal."

4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken.

5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists.

6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest."

7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye."

8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it."

9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect...

10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack."

Have not heard of Mencken, but will look him up. Would mostly agree, but as someone ? said it’s our least worst option.

Also point 10, I worry it does cancel itself out until the political fools have convinced the mob to fight, thus reducing the energy in the system.

Apologies Sean, not sure how your GM got attached to my post.

This is my experience of the bias in all mainstream media this morning. There are no counter stories from Palestinian families waiting to hear news of their loved one who have been kidnapped and detained without trial.

Thank you Aida Touma-Suleiman

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This week's episode of revolution.social is with the Etymology Nerd and author of Algospeak, Adam Aleksic.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkW8JhqcgY

It's on Fountain if you're not the video type: https://fountain.fm/episode/qXPDqSn3AJnjabKexuXh

It actually helps a bunch of you do listen / watch on youtube as that's the only place there are public viewer numbers.

This conversation was really fun. Not the least of which was i got to interview of the the social media influencers my kids like. He's somebody who both is successful on big social platforms and really understands the problems with they way they're shaping culture, politics, and the economy.

Interesting as always.

Who will remember those families dying needlessly today?

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