You desire intense intimacy and want to be loved deeply.
Not exact matches
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.
Intense emotional
intimacy breeds a
desire for a similar level of physical
intimacy, and this emotional - physical imbalance can lead couples to engage in sexual activity quite quickly after meeting in person for the first time.
Others may have less
intense avoidant tendencies, and actually
desire to be in a relationship, but their brains keep reacting in ways that sabotage their attempts at
intimacy.