Navigating Vulnerability and Intimacy in Relationships

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This chapter explores the impact of internal narratives on romantic relationships, emphasizing the importance of challenging limiting beliefs and embracing vulnerability. It discusses the tendency to rush into relationships to avoid emotional intimacy, and advocates for slowing down to build a strong foundation through communication and authenticity. The speakers share experiences and insights on setting boundaries, recognizing relationship dynamics, and savoring early memories to navigate challenges effectively.

We all want long lasting, passionate, meaningful love and in our 20s it can hard to figure out exactly how to find that. With so many 'rules' around what to do, pacing, when to become exclusive, when to say 'I love you', when to move in together, it seems the secret is to go slow and build emotional intimacy. In other words, embrace the power of the slow burn, the 'slowmance' and low pressure beginnings.

In this episode we are joined by Hinge's Love & Connection Expert, Moe Ari Brown as they discuss how to slow down and properly build a foundation for sustainable love, why we can often be overwhelmed by the need to speed things up and jump right in, ignoring intuition out of our fear of rejection, and where that can lead us. That and so (SO) much more. Listen now!

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