What your body has available
Hormonal rhythm, blood flow, nerve sensation, mood. The physical machinery of arousal and response, and whether it currently has room to work.
The Model
Intimacy Wellness / 02
Three things build capacity.
Two things drain it.
The whole idea in one picture: intimacy runs on a balance of what builds capacity against what drains it, read over time rather than sampled once.
01 / The model
Three things build capacity.
Two things drain it.
Here's the whole idea in one picture. On one side: what your body has available, how recovered you are, how safe you feel with someone. On the other: everything carrying load. Move the sliders and watch what happens to a real week.
Where this week lands
Available
balance 73
The balance holds. Desire may still need an invitation rather than arriving on its own. That is ordinary, not a deficit. Guidance here is about keeping conditions good, not repairing anything.
An illustration of how the model thinks. Not a test, and not a score of you. Real readings use your own signals over time, reviewed with a qualified professional.
What builds capacity
What drains it
For practitioners: the formal statement
The balance above is the plain-language face of a continuous-time state model. Intimacy-wellbeing is expressed as the net position of three supportive terms against two depleting ones, evaluated over time rather than sampled once.
Supportive: sexual capacity (hormonal, vascular, neural, psychological); biological readiness (sleep, autonomic recovery, metabolic, circadian); attachment safety (communication, trust, predictability, repair).
Depleting: neurosexual demand, decomposed into weighted cognitive, anxiety, hormonal, metabolic and relational load; and relationship entropy, accumulated across desire mismatch, stress, communication breakdown and trust erosion.
The result normalises to a capacity index mapped to a seven-state advisory ladder (flourishing, available, adaptive, compensating, depleting, overloaded, restorative) used only for thresholding and selecting guidance. Weightings are configurable, versioned parameters to be estimated and validated against longitudinal observation, not fixed constants.
02 / What sits behind those sliders
Five systems, read together
Nothing here is mystical. Each side of the balance is made of things that can be observed, measured or described, and each has a different answer when it's the one holding you back.
Builds capacity
Builds capacity
How recovered you are
Sleep, autonomic recovery, metabolic health, the timing of your days. Desire is expensive. A depleted body spends its budget elsewhere first.
Builds capacity
How safe it feels with them
Communication, trust, predictability, and whether things get repaired after they go wrong. Safety isn't sentiment. It is the condition arousal needs to switch on.
Drains it
The load you're carrying
Mental burden, anxiety, hormonal turbulence, metabolic fatigue, and uncertainty about where you stand. Load is usually invisible until it's spent.
Drains it
The drift between you
Desire mismatch, accumulated stress, conversations that stopped happening, small erosions of trust. Drift is gradual, which is exactly why it's worth catching early.
The point
Each one has a different answer
Sleep debt and unrepaired conflict produce the same complaint and need opposite responses. Naming which is which is most of the work.
03 / Your picture
Everything in
Everything in
one place
What you feel, what your body is doing, what your medicines are doing, where you are in life, and what's happening between you, held together in one view that moves as you do.
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This month
Advisory
Where you're sitting
Compensating
Recovery & sleep
limiting
Circulation & response
steady
Load you're carrying
high
Safety with partner
strong
Drift between you
low
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