Hi, I’m Yury Getogazov. I make CloserNight and the Truth or Dare 21+ game on Telegram, and I write and check the articles on this site.
Let’s be honest: who I am and who I’m not
I’m not a psychologist, a sex therapist or a doctor. I have no degrees or titles in psychology. I’m self-taught. At some point I took a serious interest in the psychology of dating: how people get together, how they flirt, why they’re drawn to each other and why they stop. I’ve been watching ever since.
I’ve been through hundreds of relationships and thousands of situations: my own, my friends’ and acquaintances’, the stories people tell at the kitchen table after midnight. I’ve seen couples get together and split up, some last for years and others fall apart in a single evening.
What I actually know about
Not clinical psychology, but real-life relationships. Couples and marriages are rarely destroyed by big dramas. More often it’s the small everyday stuff:
- a dismissive “here we go again” instead of “what’s wrong?”;
- a joke in front of friends that leaves the other person silent all evening;
- never talking about what you want, because “they should just know”;
- evenings when each of you is on your own phone and it all seems fine.
That’s what I care about: the words and actions that slowly kill closeness, and what brings it back.
Why CloserNight and Truth or Dare
Almost everything that breaks a couple grows out of what goes unsaid. It’s hard to start a conversation about desires, hurt or fantasies out of the blue over dinner. A game removes that barrier: the card asks the question, not you, and laughter makes an honest answer easier. That’s why I made Truth or Dare 21+ for couples and groups, and built CloserNight around it with ideas, games and guides.
By profession I’m a marketer and an AI engineer, and I write about that work on getogazov.com. CloserNight is my personal project about the things I’ve learned from life.
How I write
- From experience, not textbooks. I write about what I’ve seen and tested in real life.
- No diagnoses. I don’t diagnose anyone or give medical advice. If a relationship involves abuse, addiction or a serious crisis, you need a psychologist, a therapist or a doctor, not a game.
- 18+ and consent only. Everything on the site and in the game is for adults, and anyone can say no at any moment.
- I fix mistakes. If you spot something wrong or disagree, write to me and I’ll correct it.
Where to find me
Truth or Dare 21+ is the game this whole thing started with. Soft and Hard are free.
Play on Telegram