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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p>In this incredible three part series, host Tari shares his thought-provoking stance on who should pay and why. He draws on countless personal experiences as well as experiences from others that have helped shape his philosophies over time. Over three and a half hours of content spread out over three episodes ensures you’ll reexamine almost everything you thought about dating rituals and male, female dynamics. Drawing on countless case studies and hundreds of interviews, Tari helps you explore what kind of person you are inside and out of the dating arena.</p><p> </p><p>Let’s get closer:</p><p> </p><p>Closeness Coaching for sex, intimacy, relationships and quality of life:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p><a href="https://getcloseness.com/coaching">https://getcloseness.com/coaching</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p> </p><p>Subscribe to Closeness on YouTube:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/closeness?sub_confirmation=1">http://www.youtube.com/closeness?sub_confirmation=1</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p> </p><p>Please consider donating to our Patreon:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.patreon.com/closeness">http://www.patreon.com/closeness</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p></div>
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Part 2: Who should pay for the first date and beyond?

THE CLOSENESS PODCAST
Your New Sex Education

Hosted by Tari Mannello — Southern California's most sought-after sex and intimacy coach, with 80+ five-star reviews — Closeness is an honest, intelligent education in the things almost none of us were ever actually taught: desire, attraction, seduction, and the art of real connection.

Because we pieced it together from hints, imitation, and guesswork. And then we settled into the routines that quietly hollow out a relationship — until desire becomes a negotiation. An ask. Something traded for a clean kitchen or a good mood.

It was never meant to work that way.

Each episode goes where most people are too uncomfortable to go: touch, tension, seduction, confidence, emotional connection, and the honest distance between the sex you're having and the sex you both actually long for. Not clinical. Not crude. Something far more interesting — frank, elegant, and genuinely useful.

At the center is one idea. Desire isn't summoned by force or technique. It's built — through presence, attention, and the nerve to lead, to read her, and to actually move. That's the skill almost no one teaches. It's the one Tari has spent more than a decade teaching, in the room, with real people.

Practical. Actionable. Free of shame and judgment. The kind of guidance that holds up in a real relationship, not just in theory.

You're leaving more on the table than you know. This is how you stop.

Listen closely. New episodes regularly. Find Tari at closeness.com — or search IntimacyMentor on socials!