How herpes slows things down & helps "the blossoming"

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Well it seems that there's a there is a blossoming that happens in especially in romantic relationship. But anytime that we open up like I I love the metaphor of blossoming. Because a a flower never starts at a bud and just boom. Like just pops wide open right it's it's layer by layer it's pedal by pedal. And I think our culture these days is all all about just quickness efficiency. You know like getting right to it you know cutting out the fat trimming out the fat it's considered old school to to. You know not sleep with someone in the first five dates. I mean really really people like are we really living in that kind of a world. I I think there's a reason for the like the thrill of the unfolding the thrill of of courtship. And in that courtship you open little by little.

Opening to romantic relationship is a process that includes trust and time.

And believe it or not, herpes can actually help in this process of blossoming, of opening to being held and seen by your partner.

It's being seen in your humanity that is so connecting.