Consider this interesting research finding: Couples counseling that focused mainly on improving couples communication and problem - solving skills helped reduce negative patterns of communication but did not lead couples to feel emotionally closer to one another (emotional intimacy didn't increase).
In addition, they also learned that less physical
intimacy did not lead to more physical ailments in the future.
If there is no face - to - face interaction in your relationships, intimacy doesn't have space to grow.
Intimacy does take effort but if it is a burden, then it isn't the real thing.
Intimacy does not suggest a saccharine sentimentalism; it can be expressed in constructive conflict which is the growing edge of a relationship.
Perhaps the signs of intimacy don't carry the content of love.
Only within
this intimacy does the life of faith receive the emotional energy and concrete guidance required to move beyond childhood to maturing.
Parent - child
intimacy does not include making the child a substitute spouse.
The good news is that intimacy doesn't only mean sex and it isn't always about touch.
In fact, research states that
intimacy does affect age gap greatly.
What kind of
intimacy do you expect in your ideal mutually beneficial relationship with a sugar daddy or sugar baby?
JEFFREY DEITCH — With Facebook and all these new technologies our notion of intimacy doesn't involve nearly as much secrecy as it used to.
Susan Peters of San Francisco * says: «I've been married 23 years, and with teenagers at home along with a dog, intimacy doesn't always feel, well, so intimate.
If you're asking yourself, «You mean intimacy doesn't involve acceptance and validation from my partner or feeling secure enough to disclose?»
Check out Esther's article «The Mystery of Eroticism,» in which she explains why good intimacy doesn't necessarily make for good sex, and how to help struggling couples rekindle the spark.
Love and intimacy don't blossom by trying to pull it toward us or manipulating people.
Yet, it's important to keep in mind that true
intimacy does not only consist of having good times with your spouse.
Esther Perel, in her book, Mating in Captivity, suggests that what makes for good
intimacy does not always make for good sex.
Emotional closeness and physical
intimacy do not always directly correlate and may have a more complex relationship.
However, good intimacy doesn't guarantee good sex.
Infidelity, talk of separation or divorce; what if every conversation turns into a fight, maybe about topics such as how to handle money,
intimacy you do or don't want and what about children?
KW - marital satisfaction, adult attachment, caregiving, sexuality, sexual
intimacy DO - 10.17315 / kjhp.2008.13.3.007 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2008.13.3.007 ER -
Not exact matches
If they
do plan a big trip, the
intimacy of a small shop allows a level of communication that is rare in big companies.
'' [Financial automation] helps to simplify some of the more rudimentary financial tasks that we all have to
do,» says Jacquette M. Timmons, a financial behaviorist, author of «Financial
Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate» and president and CEO of Sterling Investment Management Inc. «In addition to the simplification, it can also help you to be a little more organized,» she adds.
How
do you see humans» relationships with robots and machines evolving when it comes to business, friendship, and even
intimacy?
The insights they provided those of us who
did not have diabetes gave us a deeper degree of
intimacy with the customers we were serving.
I would love to have that type of relationship where A) even though they were tired, they made an effort towards physical
intimacy and B) when it didn't work out, there was no anger or blame, just laugh about it and move on.
Intimacy requires trust and trust requires time and time is exactly what we don't have in a society driven by capitalism on steroids, turbo capitalism.
Emotionally immature Christians don't know how to grow in
intimacy, which is the stuff of relationships.
I really wanted to
do something to improve worship in the Church and bring real connection and
intimacy with God, rather than just singing nice songs.
We
do have sex, and while I enjoy the closeness and the
intimacy, it often feels more functional than... More
'' «Finally comes the poet»... It's a rare gift that can render both life's everyday
intimacies and the heart's broken rhythms in language at once lucid and lyrical, but Ann
does it without seeming to try... Finally comes the poet.»
We
do have sex, and while I enjoy the closeness and the
intimacy, it often feels more functional than fireworks.
We
do have sex, and while I enjoy the closeness and the
intimacy, it often feels more functional than...
By the very nature of midwifery, it is holy work that is
done in secret and in
intimacy.
Though many don't realize it, the after effects of sexual abuse are deep and painful, and worldviews of abuse are often distorted and adopted by victims, such as fear of
intimacy, unhealthy views toward sex, and even hatred of one's own body.
Don't allow your love life to be turned into a purely functional operation, with legs raised after ejaculation and other tricks; it is much more important that you stay entwined in
intimacy.
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.
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.
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 way.
Thus LGBT people often don't express
intimacy.
Sara, just to clarify, a chaste marriage doesn't mean one in which seexual
intimacy is limited.
Noli me tangere, or in Greek me mou baptou, he translates: «
Do not keep on hugging me» — a sign of their former
intimacy.
In
doing this, says Trüb, the analyst must avoid the
intimacy of a private I - Thou relationship with the patient, on the one hand, and the temptation of dealing with the patient as an object, on the other.
That's usually not the reality, but marriage
does bring with it the gift of pure, God - sanctioned
intimacy and vulnerability as we seek to love our spouse well.
People from families where members
do not see one another or communicate regularly can not be expected to know much about
intimacy in relationships.
By investing themselves in enhancing the general quality of their relationship and improving their communication skills, they will probably
do more to increase
intimacy than by pouring their worried attention onto their «sex problem.»
The usual way of
doing so is to mix up love with the romantic feelings that characteristically accompany it, and call them «
intimacy.»
Did your god make g - ay people just so that they would be miserable and not have the physical
intimacy allowed to heteros?
We try to
do this on Wednesdays at our house, so that we can enjoy our more relaxed weekend opportunities for
intimacy.