747 Quotes About Intimacy

If your partner doesn’t know how to listen to their own sensuality, they’ll often project their own internal struggles on you because they are not attuned to their own essence.

People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is "You're safe with me"—that's intimacy.

The AVP’s ambivalence extends to displaying affection. They can at once show interest and then shut this interest off when the spouse responds more intimately. The spouse is left with feelings of disappointment and discouragement, annoyance, and confusion.

The more stressors in an AVP’s life, the more heightened is his or her unfolding ambivalence. This action blocks the forward motion of a warm, intimate relationship. They are preoccupied; they are stressed;

In their effort to avoid conflicts, they have avoided intimacy. They can feel numb to a spouse’s needs. Messages become jumbled and can eventually almost stop being taken in by the AVP.

Both men and women AVPs are emotionally silent. The notable loss of intimacy is reported by the spouse of the AVP. These day-to-day losses are very wearing on the spouse.

Intimacy was not about maintaining the idealistic charade of courtship; it was about embracing and adoring the flaws.

Knowing who we are, what we want, and being able to express our needs, wants, and desires - so that we can find others to share them - makes us poor targets for capitalism, because we can now access intimacy in many ways, with several beings, and even by ourselves. This type of knowing is rooted in radical self-care, an acceptance of interdependence, and radical self-love.

As pessoas acham que intimidade tem a ver com sexo. Mas intimidade tem a ver mesmo é com a verdade.Quando a pessoa percebe que pode contar a verdade para alguém, que pode se abrir, que pode desabafar totalmente e receber como resposta: "Comigo essas coisas estão a salvo". Isso é intimidade.Então, por esse padrão, esse momento com Cecília era o mais íntimo que eu já tivera com uma pessoa na vida.