What Is Intimacy?

Intimacy is one of our legitimate needs and a prerequisite of happiness. You can survive without intimacy, but you cannot thrive without it.

Intimacy is one of our legitimate needs and a prerequisite of happiness. You can survive without intimacy, but you cannot thrive without it. We yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it. We want it badly, but we run from it. At some deep level, we sense that we have a profound need for intimacy, but we are also afraid to go there. Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets. read more...