So this is going to be kind of a personal video and it's because it's about a breakup
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and it's a breakup that happened a while ago but when I made the video on it,
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I don't think that I was ready or had the perspective to share what I want to share
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with you today and that's because I didn't know it
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because at the time, I thought that we broke up because
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she had one set of values, I had another — we wanted different things in our life —
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and despite the fact that we loved each other, it just broke us.
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But I realized that there was something else that sabotaged our relationship
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without me even realizing it and it was something that I let happen
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so I'm making this in the hopes that if this is you or has been you or could be you,
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that you do better than I did and I want to start by kind of giving you some context
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to this relationship so that you can see if it is for you because,
truly, this is not a relationship advice for everyone —
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it's really only for the people who relate to the stories that I'm about to tell.
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And the context is that we had a very masculine
and feminine dichotomous relationship
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and what I mean by that, very simply, is that
we had kind of an opposites-attract thing going on
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and I see this in many relationships, though not all, where one person — the more masculine person —
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tends to be more outwardly-focused, they tend to be more future-focused, and
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they tend to have a more narrow range of emotions
that they might experience on any given day.
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And the person who is more feminine tends to have a wider range of emotions —
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higher highs, lower lows — they tend to live more in the present moment
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and they tend to be more focused on their social and familial connections.
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This doesn't mean that you can't have bits of either person
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but it just means that the masculine person tends to live most of the
time here and the feminine person tends to live over here
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and what happens when those two people meet is it can be awesome —
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like, the sparks are incredible because they provide for each other
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something that they don't often get
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and I think for this woman that I dated — I provided,
for her, a sense of groundedness perspective and —
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I think I made her feel very safe.
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For me, I got this wider range of emotions, I got to experience some of the most
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intense feelings that I've ever gotten and it made me feel alive
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in ways that I, quite frankly, hadn't up until that point.
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So really, really, really good sparks but one of the things that I have noticed
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and I noticed early in the relationship is that people who tend to be a bit more
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feminine and a bit more emotionally-driven don't always communicate so directly
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and what I mean is that the three layers of communication are not in sync
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and those three layers are — what someone says,
what someone wants, and what someone needs.
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So a couple of examples, just a very basic stereotypical one —
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a guy is about to go out on a Friday night.
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His girlfriend is not happy about it for whatever reason and she doesn't look happy
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and he says, "What's wrong?" and she says, "Don't worry about it. It's fine. Just go."
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Now, what are these three layers of communication?
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First, literally, what she says is, "Just go."
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If you were to just go, you would probably be not in a very good place
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because what she says and what she wants are not the same.
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What she wants is for him to stay perhaps, right? And to spend that time with her.
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But what she needs could be anything depending on the context of their relationship.
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Maybe she needs him to say, "You know what? I've been totally neglecting you.
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You're right. I'm going to go out tonight because I made plans but let's definitely
do something tomorrow and I'm going to block off next weekend for you."
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Maybe she needs him to say, "You know what?
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You've kind of been really upset since you got in a fight with your friend.
I think that this is something you need to work through on your own.
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I'm going to go out but we can talk about it later," —
it completely depends on the context of the relationship.
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But the point that I am making here is that I do believe
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that with the people that you love the most — your family, your friends,
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and especially your intimate relationships — it is your job
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to of course listen to what they say and to give them what they want
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but, really, to deliver what they need.
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And that is what we were able to do for one another at the beginning of this
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relationship and because her three layers were sometimes out of sync,
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I oftentimes had to feel what she needed
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that was going on underneath what she was saying, right?
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So for instance, maybe she was upset about something
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and we were having a conversation; she said she wanted to talk about it.
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And I noticed that as she was talking about it,
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she was just getting more and more upset
and it wasn't really helping her feel better.
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At the time, I said, "Hey, hold on one sec. Just come over here."
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I gave her a big hug, I'd crack a joke, she laughed and then she ,
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she cried on me and 20 seconds later after she was done crying, she'd say,
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"Thank you. I needed that," and then the next day, we could actually
address the problem and talk about it and come up with solutions.
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That's an example of listening not to what
someone just said but what someone needs
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and at the beginning of our relationship, we were both just able to cut through
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and give the other one what they needed in such an intense way
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and of course, there were plenty of times where what we said
and what we needed were the same — in fact, most of the time.
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But when they didn't match up, the other person just knew
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and I, especially, feel like I had such a good grasp on her value system
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on what ultimately was going to make her feel good and I was able to deliver it
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in a way that made us really, really close.
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So that went great for a long time but as the relationship progressed
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and especially at the end, I lost sight of that and whereas before I just had this
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gut feeling where I knew what to do — I knew she needed a hug,
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I knew that she needed to talk, I know that she needed space,
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I knew that she needed me to come be with her — whatever it was,
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I couldn't feel it anymore.
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And so I'd find myself in conversations that turn to arguments
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and after 20 minutes I go, "How did we get here
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and how come I don't know how to get us out of here?"
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I don't know what she needs, I felt disconnected from her,
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and it got so bad that I was, literally, even more frequently bumping into her
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like I couldn't anticipate where she was going.
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And I was trying to puzzle this all out in my brain,
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"How did we go from feeling so in sync to just so disconnected?"
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and I realized, it is something that happens all the time
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and it's that I lost my masculine center.
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And I know that sounds very hippie-dippie — very woo woo —
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but what I mean by that is that
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I got so scared that the relationship would end
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and it meant so much to me because it created so many positive feelings in me
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that I stopped doing the things that I needed to do to be this grounded person
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and instead of really understanding what she needed at the time,
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I started listening only to what she was saying because I just wanted to fix things;
I wanted everything to be better so I just listened to what she said and I delivered
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but I wasn't giving her what she needed.
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And sometimes I wasn't even listening to what she says to be to be totally fair.
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And I'm sorry. If she's been watching that, she would say
I didn't listen to her the whole time.
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But I did lose sight of what she needed
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and what that meant is that over time, we slowly drew apart.
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Now in order to fix this — because I'd lost my masculine core — I thought,
"Oh, you know what I need to do? I need to grip this relationship tighter."
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So towards the end, when things weren't going fantastic,
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I planned three weeks for us to just stay together
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and at this point, she even said — she knew — she's like, "Hey, I don't think
that's a great idea," and I said, "No, no, no. We have to do this,"
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but again, my gut, my intuition for telling us what we needed was completely off
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because I was just living kind of in fear that this relationship would end.
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So I planned three weeks, we spent them together, and while it started okay,
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we both disconnected from — on my case my friends,
and her case, primarily her family
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and just spending so much time with each other,
little things got blown tremendously out of proportion.
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For instance, we're standing in line, we're about to get some food,
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she's a little bit peevish because she hasn't eaten
that day and she's just a little bit short with me;
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early in the relationship, I would know, "That has nothing to do with me.
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She's hungry. Let it go. She's going to be fine in
three minutes when she eats," which is what happened.
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But because I was scared that the relationship was going to end,
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I was upset that she was upset, I got upset, and now even though she was fine
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three minutes later, I was harboring a grudge and that grudge
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lasted for hours and then created another argument that went into the evening.
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That is what destroyed our relationship; it is me losing my masculine center.
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And it's only having gotten this distance from the relationship that I realized
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the things that I stopped doing — the practices and the habits that
I need and, I think, probably a lot of guys might — to maintain that.
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So I want to share with you now what those are because
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if you lose that and you can't give the other person what they need,
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you lose that intuitive sense that I do believe comes kind of inborn
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when you really do click with someone and you understand their values,
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it can end the relationship so there might be a female corollary to these things
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or rather a feminine core — I don't know, that's not my experience —
but I just want to share with you the three things that I did afterwards —
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I wish that I have done earlier — but that you can potentially do
if you find yourself in this kind of a situation.
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The first one is absolutely create time for male bonding.
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And it sounds so simple but I see so many guys who meet a girl
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that they're crazy about and they just want to spend all their time together
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and they begin to isolate themselves from their male friends; this is not a good idea.
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I know it sounds romantic to be the only people in the world that you need
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but that, for me and I think for many men who have
the same kind of a core that I would say that I do,
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is that you need to replenish that perspective.
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And what was so interesting is that after we broke up and I did have more time
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and I called my friends, they immediately, in conversation with them,
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made me realize how lacking in perspective I'd be over this stupid argument
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that we had about food in the fact that she was peevish.
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I couldn't believe how I got so caught up in the moment and so upset.
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They helped ground me.
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They teased me, they poked fun at me, and it just made me feel more centered.
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Unfortunately, when I didn't create time for that in the relationship, well,
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that kind of messed things up.
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The second one is that you need to keep the things
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that attracted her to you in the first place.
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And what I realized is that when a lot of people start relationships, they're flirtatious,
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they're fun, they're challenging, they're dangerous and a little bit edgy.
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And then as the relationship develops, it becomes so logistical.
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"What do you want to do tonight? What movies would you
like to watch? Do you want Italian?" "I don't want to,"
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and it could be very loving but it loses that spark.
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You need to, if you want to have that polarity, —
one, create the time apart, I think is important, with your friends
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and two, you need to flirt with the person that you're dating
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and in order to do that, I do believe that you have to flirt with the world, right?
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I spent so much time just worrying about this relationship that when I would interact
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with someone in the world about this guy or a girl, I was so straightforward.
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In the past, when I went into Chipotle or I talked to someone,
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I always was messing around, I was having fun, I was cracking jokes,
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and I was creating relationships but because I got so obsessed and so scared
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that this relationship was going to end, I stopped flirting with the world.
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Now I'm not saying flirting in the sense that it must be someone of the opposite sex;
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it could be but it doesn't have to be.
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You just need to mess around, be playful, be challenging, and be fun with people
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out there and you bring that energy to your relationship,
it makes it better; it keeps that spark going.
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And third, and I believe this is the most important thing that I lost sight of,
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is that you need a purpose that is bigger than the relationship.
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And I know that this is controversial but I do believe
that it is important for people that have a masculine center.
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If you disagree, feel free to let me know in the comments.
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In fact, I shouldn't say with such certainty that this is true of everybody;
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this is true of me, maybe it's true of you.
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But when I woke up in the morning, the most important thing for me
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that had appeared in my life was making sure that this relationship didn't end.
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And what that meant is that rather than treating this relationship as somewhere
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where I want to just give positive emotions — where I was having an amazing day,
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when I saw her, I was just ready to dump these amazing stories and emotions on her.
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It was that I stopped really enjoying so many of the things in my life
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that I used to enjoy and I went to her to make me
feel loved and connected and peaceful —
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that is a recipe for disaster.
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I began treating the relationship like a well to be drawn from
rather than a cup that I could fill up.
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When I separated and I started to reconnect with the things that really matters
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to me and I came back to Charisma on Command which I've been doing
but really thinking about, honestly, trying to help more people
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and thinking about that purpose and really dedicating myself to that,
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all of these feelings that had, for awhile, only come from her —
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these feelings of connection and love and doing the right thing
and being significant, I started to feel that in myself.
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And it let me spread that in a way that I didn't so
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if you relate to this, what you need is a purpose that is bigger than your relationship
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and I know it sounds romantic to have your relationship be the only thing
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but what I have experienced is that in making sure that I'm doing something
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for the world that contributes, that gives back, and that is good —
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and that my relationship, of course, plays a part of it and she absolutely did help
me create Charisma on Command in fact and she loved ot be a part of it
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and in excluding her from that, I mean, what a dumb thought
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but I did it because I was just like, "No, this relationship must work."
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In losing that purpose, really, more than anything, I lost that masculine center.
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I lost that drive to give to the world, I lost that drive to give back,
and I became so obsessed with what I might lose.
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If you do that, you stand to absolutely losing the relationship and so
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I wanted to create this video not just as a confessional but because
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I do think that I see a lot of people doing this and it is unfortunately very common
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both for men and women that when they get into a relationship,
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they lose themselves; I would say they lose their center.
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So clearly, I'm speaking from a masculine perspective
but there's absolutely a feminine perspective.
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If my ex were to make this video, she could tell you about her experience
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but you need to not just lose yourself in another person
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and again, I don't mean to proclaim and I'm sorry for doing this
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but it has been my experience that losing yourself and
another person is not the way to have a healthy relationship.
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You need to be your centered self with that person
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and that is how you create an amazing relationship; you maintain
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your relationship's, your life, your family, and your friends' purpose.
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You incorporate that person into it but you don't lose sight of the things
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that make you work independently of them because if you do,
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not only you're screwing yourself but you're screwing the relationship.
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So I hope that you have found this helpful and not to rambley
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and perhaps self-indulgent if you will but I did want to
make this because I think that it might help some people.
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One last thing before I let you guys go is that
we are so close to hiring our video editor, Andre.
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He's been doing the YouTube videos for a long time and he's going to start,
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and already has, creating content for Instagram
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so if you want to follow a little bit more short form content, you can follow
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@charismaoncommand on Instagram or if you want to follow me,
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this is more pictures in my studio stuff that's going on in my life in California right now
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so if you want to follow me, it's @charliehoupert on Instagram.
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We'd love to see you guys on there because I am looking forward to creating
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kind of different styles of content as I have reconnected with my purpose which is
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just Charisma on Command right now; it touches my heart. I'm blushing.
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But anyways, I love you guys.
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Thank you so much for watching this video.
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I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you in the next one.
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