I love intensity and could care
less about intimacy, life is perfect for me.
Not exact matches
Davis et al (2006) found fathers working non-standard shifts knowing significantly
less about their teens» daily activities than fathers with daytime shifts; and fathers» non-standard shift working, when combined with high parental conflict, correlated with
less father - teen
intimacy.
Less suburban sex tale, Charla Muller's story is more
about the role sex plays in creating
intimacy and closeness within a marriage.
But where Picasso's work was
about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just
about everything else), Bourgeois's art is
about personal pain and a sexuality that is
less about personal
intimacy and more
about eroticism on a grand scale.
Writing
about ayounger generation of painters working through the legacy of the Intimists, writer and curator Chris Sharp ofLulu in Mexico City raises doubts, «
about the feasibility of
intimacy, perceiving it
less as a fact of life than an ethical mode, won through the increasingly rare act of paying attention.»
Your partner may begin to feel that it is more risky to open up to you or talk to you
about their real thoughts and feelings, and what you therefore end up with is
less intimacy — not more.
«Attaining a high level of relationship satisfaction is not just
about being
less hostile or contemptuous towards your partner, but it is also critical for couples to show affection to one another, particularly in contexts where partners come together to connect and build
intimacy.»
Think
about the reasons why you have
less affection - is it money worries, work stress, or simply
less physical
intimacy?
We've written a lot
about avoidant attachment (see here and here for more on attachment), but here's a quick summary: Those who are high in avoidance tend to be uncomfortable with
intimacy, want
less closeness in their relationships, and distrust others more.
In our couples therapy practice, we work with couples to break out of the linear power struggle around being more or
less rigid —
about money, sex,
intimacy, planning, etc. — and instead, look more creatively
about how couples might coexist as two people with different relationships with rigidity and structure.
Most of us did not have parents who knew how to talk to us
about sex, much
less intimacy.
Due to the insecure attachment style singles reported feeling
less comfortable with closeness and
intimacy, more problems with depending on others, and more worries
about being unloved or fear of rejection (Adamczyk and Bookwala, 2013).