Sentences with phrase «as for intimacy»

Oh and as for the intimacy or the major lack of it I don't know what to do anymore!!

As for intimacy, the bed is not the only place you can be intimate, nor is bedtime the only or even most convenient time to do so.

As for intimacy: There are plenty of other places to have sex than in the bedroom.

Not exact matches

The longtime Nelson, B.C., resident is one of the world's most respected backcountry mountain guides, and he's parlayed his intimacy with the province's mountain ranges into a role as a senior avalanche officer for the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

Brands seeking to convey more sophisticated qualities, such as elegance and intimacy (for example, Armani, Tiffany, and Jaguar) branch out into richer colors, such as those used in a box of 64 Crayola crayons.

No effort is made to teach the importance of marriage as the proper home for sexual intimacy.»

Our longing for intimacy can often be for what God wants for us as we anchor into community.

In fact, you might just find, as Jonathan Martin wrote, that the wilderness is the birthplace of true intimacy with God for you.

Biola then issued a «statement on human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»

He's right to desire her healing, but clearly this cure - seeking obsession is narrowing his vision, so that he neglects Izzy's need for intimacy and spiritual healing as well.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

(As for physical intimacy with anyone else — male or female — on his part, that's simply none of anyone's business.)

This is actually fundamentally important for you, as this will be the foundation of happy sexual intimacy once married.

But I found myself now in a place were I found the Jesus that I always preached to other people for about 15 years including 8 1/2 years in as a missionary in a Third World Country with my wife and three children (two of them born overseas), the Jesus that speaks to you, the Jesus that wants to make you happy and give you hope, the Jesus that saved me and I knew but not to this level of intimacy.

Lyman and Adele Wynne define intimacy as a relation in which the core components are trusting self - disclosure and communicated empathy («The Quest for Intimacy,» Journal of Marital and Family Theraintimacy as a relation in which the core components are trusting self - disclosure and communicated empathy («The Quest for Intimacy,» Journal of Marital and Family TheraIntimacy,» Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, vol.

Thus, in spite of the centrality Western culture gives to «being intimate,» the Wynnes view intimacy as a supplementary, not an essential, process «for strengthening the bonding that has been crucial for the survival of the human species throughout the ages.»

12, no. 4) Following Martin Buber, they point to the limits of intimacy as a norm for personal relationships, emphasizing that it «can not be willfully induced or long sustained.»

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

As pointed out in Chapter 3, a key factor in the successful resolution of the intimacy crisis is the possession of a firm sense of personal identity as a foundation for intimate relationshipAs pointed out in Chapter 3, a key factor in the successful resolution of the intimacy crisis is the possession of a firm sense of personal identity as a foundation for intimate relationshipas a foundation for intimate relationships.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

Social sexuality, then, reflects the basic human need we experience as men and women for intimacy and connection.

Since all physical intimacies between the sexes have sexual union as an implicit hope, intention, or inclination, they should be reserved solely for persons who have made a covenant of engagement to marry one another.

As personal identity is the foundation of marital intimacy, marital identity and intimacy are the bases for generativity.

Younger generations treat sex not as the pinnacle of intimacy but as a first gateway through which all potential relationships must pass for screening before proceeding onward or not toward some ultimate plane of closeness.

As is now painfully public knowledge, some of the clergy, met their «need for intimacy» in activity with teenage boys for which dioceses are now paying out millions of dollars in compensation.

Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy as to make the pious attempt of others to serve as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married love: «No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»

I have a good job for a guy my age, work out / rock climb as often as I want, am content with the amount of physical intimacy I receive, have visited 13ish countries and see 3 continents.

A proposed revision to the new DSM, due out next year, lists the following as a mild impairment of interpersonal intimacy, and thus a criterion for the neurotic / personality disorders: the patient has the «[c] apacity and desire to form intimate and reciprocal relationships, but may be inhibited in meaningful expression and sometimes constrained by any intense emotion or conflict.

However, in the absence of genuine sexual intimacy (best defined as «in - to - me - see»), we settle for sexual intensity: erotica, pornography, an office romance, an extramarital affair or whatever strokes the ego and provides the sexual high we crave.

I didn't want to volunteer to shut out romantic love from my life — the beautiful union of physical and spiritual intimacy that straight people took for granted as a potential blessing life might grant them — by committing to celibacy, and I thought the positive, self - loving thing to do was to accept myself.

This can happen as a result of planned and persistent effort, choosing the goals that attract both and planning strategy for moving toward them, remembering that there needs to be a balance among the various dimensions of intimacy in order to enrich the relationship and prevent any one facet of the relationship from being overloaded.

Intimacy grows as couples develop a high degree of caring for each other.

Awareness of the need for a sense of connectedness with something that transcends human intimacy grows stronger as the years fly by.

His beliefs and politics: As a counselor, Clinton advocates for greater mental health awareness among Christians and addresses pornography as an epidemic hurting marital intimacAs a counselor, Clinton advocates for greater mental health awareness among Christians and addresses pornography as an epidemic hurting marital intimacas an epidemic hurting marital intimacy.

It is also a second - chance stage, when partially unfinished developmental tasks may be completed as a foundation for the life tasks of the three adult stages — intimacy (emotional and sexual) in young adulthood, generativity (being a generator or creator) in the middle years, and ego integrity (making peace with life) in the older adult years.

Erikson describes the union of personalities which is intimacy when he defines love as «The mutuality of mates and partners in a shared identity, for the mutual verification through an experience of finding oneself, as one loses oneself in another.»

Sometimes this is explicit, in the exchange of harsh words; at other times it is implicit, evident not so much in what is said as in what is left unsaid --- for example, in the loss of those earlier notes of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual intimacy with his beloved sister Jemima.

Accordingly, he correctly points out that the language of intimacy in love as applied to God, the love between father and son, between husband and wife, are basic in Hebraic speech about the love of God for Israel (SFL 19f).

However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 14for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 14For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).

As a husband and wife in their own struggle for intimacy become open to their own feelings, and their relationship deepens, the children will automatically be affected by it.

Healthy parent - child intimacy at any stage of the family cycle frees the child for autonomy even as it pulls the parents closer together.

It has been 300 years since Protestants began to understand that God's primary purpose in creating us as sexual beings is not procreation but giving us the desire and capacity for intimacy.

The intimacy of communication claimed by the broadcasters falls very short as an acceptable model of Christian concern and communication for several reasons.

Instead of portraying a Christian who gives Jesus» pleading attempts at conversation the cold shoulder, it depicts Jesus as the one who is indifferent to the pleas for intimacy.

Then there's the awkwardness of public masturbation and groping the neighbor in the dining room, about which Dr. Philip Sloane says, «A lot of time, the activity we think of as sexually deviant behavior is just reaching out for intimacy.»

My ex-wife viewed any flavor of that intimacy other than that vanilla stuff named for missionaries as sodomy.

As Erik Erikson observes, the achievement of intimacy in young adulthood provides essential equipment for handling the life task of the next period, generativity.

Thus, for example, where modern discussions of friendship might emphasize the importance of «self - disclosure as the basis for intimacy and trust between friends,» ancient thinkers simply did not value self - disclosure.

For believers, repentance also helps us experience intimacy and fellowship with God in a greater way as well.

What little they have to say in their ancient texts on this topic (and many other topics) reflects their distate for the practices of all foreign peoples and cultures, as well as their discomfort with all things pertaining to the erotic, such as nudity, intimacy and bodily fluids — things that they themselves kept hidden and quiet about.