Honesty is essential
for intimacy in relationships.
Emotional Availability in Group: Expanding the Capacity
for Intimacy in Group Members and Leaders
Adolescents» attachment representations and their capacity
for intimacy in close relationships.
Toying with the audience's sense of repulsion but also attraction, the objects and videos in the exhibition can be seen as surrogates
for intimacy in an age of digital dissociation.
It will not overload you with activities and attractions, but rather give you a chance
for intimacy in a tranquile environment.
An important implication of the study's findings are that as physicians and counselors discuss PrEP with MSM in steady relationships, Gamarel said, they should consider that a desire
for intimacy in the relationship appears to be a prime motivation.
It enhances our capacity
for intimacy in all our internal relations, be they with others, the non-human world or God.
Sex in marriage is not a matter of achievement or performance, but an expression of and a foundation
for intimacy in marriage.
The firm sense of personal identity which is a prerequisite
for intimacy in marriage and sexual relationships, is also strengthened and affirmed by experiences of interacting constructively with a person of the complementary sex.
Not exact matches
To gain insight into the best strategies
for working with and
for a narcissist, I tapped my dear friend Robert Weiss, the senior vice president
for clinical development at Elements Behavioral Health, an accomplished author and world - renowned speaker on sex and
intimacy in the digital age.
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.
In the same vein, what often counts most
for professional men is the
intimacy of a social network.
Our small meeting rooms
in Toronto are well suited
for up to three people, whenever you desire privacy or
intimacy.
In a new book titled «Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting
Intimacy with Your Spouse,» the Youngs encourage readers to have sex with their spouse every day
for a week.
For most people, though,
in most times, it means sexual
intimacy within marriage.
I would shake their trust
in others, possibly hurting their capacity
for commitment and
intimacy.
I have known one too many single Christians who have struggled with their relationship with God because they are told that God is only one who could fill all of their longings
for intimacy when all the while God made humanity to be
in loving relationship with another.
In fact, you might just find, as Jonathan Martin wrote, that the wilderness is the birthplace of true
intimacy with God
for you.
We move together, one body, all
for intimacy and beauty, the dance of lovers that know every curve and lean into the unknown parts with full trust
in the hands they hold.»
In Chapter 9, Matthew makes a strong case that being created in the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationshi
In Chapter 9, Matthew makes a strong case that being created
in the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationshi
in the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created
in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationshi
in the image of God is longing
for intimacy and relationship.
Renita Weems: Just A Sister Away and I Asked
For Intimacy Delores Williams: Sisters
in the Wilderness Katie Cannon: Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
For a number of reasons, therefore, experimentation with models underscoring the
intimacy of God and creation may be
in order and it is this task, with one model, that I will undertake.
He always discovers only that mysterious
intimacy of light out of darkness which is at work everywhere and at all times; no redemption which is different
in kind, none which by its nature would be unique, which would be conclusive
for future ages, and which had but to be consummated.
Actually, they are a famished bunch and I do hope that a real hunger
for G - d will arise, a hunger not
for fast - food, snacks or convenient easy microwavable meals (read teaching)... but a hunger
for intimacy, relational and authentic communion
in His beautiful but sadly still broken and bleeding Body.
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.
If the need - satisfaction path to greater
intimacy is to be a useful one to a couple, it is important
for them to recognize that some needs can not and should not be satisfied, even
in the best marriage.
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.
Taken
in this context, masturbation and whether or not it is a healthy expression of sexuality
for a particular individual become questions of whether or not the acts of masturbation at a particular season of life are drawing you deeper into isolation from others and from God, or into deeper connection and
intimacy.
Sometimes social media allows us to «connect» with people
for the sake of connecting rather than
for the sake of living — gratifying an urge inside of us momentarily, while preventing us from experiencing true
intimacy in its most fulfilling context: real life.
Certainly, some of these transplanted Christians may find deeper
intimacy and fellowship with God and with other believers
in their new circle of friends, but unless they are also finding ways to love, serve, and become friends with people who are not Christians, all they have done is substituted one form of Christian consumerism
for another.
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 Thera
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 Thera
Intimacy,» Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, vol.
It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up
in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wa
in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life
in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wa
in hard times.54
In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wa
In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of
intimacy (uns) with God -
for - us is reckoned to be lonely,
for not many undertake this journey prior to death
in a voluntary sort of wa
in a voluntary sort of way.
Founding small groups has been one way
in which megachurches have been able to meet the need
for intimacy among their members, and
in some cases these groups appear to have generated further growth
in their sponsoring organizations.
Interpersonal skill groups
for young adults (married and unmarried) help them lower barriers to interpersonal
intimacy, their life task
in that stage.
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.»
«Games,»
in T.A.'s understanding, are forms of repetitive, mutual manipulation which are substitutes
for intimacy.
It is about making space
for your love, putting
in the effort to make each other feel good physically, being responsive emotionally, investing time to build your
intimacy,
in short, not giving each other the butt end of your resources.
In short,
for women there is a fusion of identity and the web of
intimacy (pp. 62 and 159).
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.
It is well to remember that
intimacy can exist
in a relationship —
for example, a friendship — without physical contact of any kind.
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 relationships.
In the midst of what sometimes seems to be a national obsession with sex, it is often difficult
for a couple to discover and cultivate the power of sexual
intimacy which is so vital a part of marriage.
It is healthy
for engaged couples to broaden their relationship by exploring many dimensions of sharing — intellectual, aesthetic, creative, work, commitment, and spiritual
intimacy can be added,
in addition to the usual pattern of emotional, recreational and romantic relating.
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.
We're created
for life
in the body,
for eating together,
for friendship,
for intimacy
There is an intensity and
intimacy, and ultimately a purpose and mission, uniquely present here which leads Amos,
for example, to cry
in the name of Yahweh:
Out of the many occasions
for sharing
in the early stages of
intimacy there gradually develops a community of experience which sets that marriage apart from the rest of the world and produces the «we - ness» of the marriage identity.
There are changes
in the
intimacy pattern
in the various stages of the marriage, but there is also a tendency
for the couple to maintain a general continuity of relationship style over the years.
Thus there has to be
in some paradoxical way a «distancing of God»
in order to allow
for the
intimacy of a relation based on fidelity and trust.)
Although the process of becoming a group is a natural one, certain factors
in our society tend to block it —
for example, competitiveness, fear of
intimacy, and general reluctance to relax our defensive masks.