My hope for you is that the book and workbook will help you gain the insight and skills necessary to strengthen your relationship during your journey to parenthood and reduce or prevent a drop in the quality
of your intimacy as partners.
Challenging prevailing notions of intimacy being a soothing safe haven for insecure people with «attachment wounds,» this piece expands on a differentiation - based view
of intimacy as a «people - growing machine.»
While it's most common to think
of intimacy as physical closeness, intimacy takes many important forms in a healthy relationship such as emotional closeness, friendship, intellectual alignment, and attachment.
Yes, 70 % of the couples who decide to make a commitment to extramarital recovery counseling, do find ways to restore a bond
of intimacy as researched by Shirley Glass, who has explored the dynamics of the aftermath of cheating.
the curvature adds a degree
of intimacy as you view it typically from the «right spot» about 3 - 4 metres away.
MAS is not of the same level
of intimacy as VQF.
Emin has always been inspired by expressionist painters Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele (evident in her Diploma Work Trying to Find You, although it is also explicitly feminist.Viewing her work generates a experience
of intimacy as a result of Emin's emotional honesty.
We here to helps people to meet girls for any level
of intimacy as per their desires.
In fact, recent studies suggest that parents who read to their babies while they are in the NICU develop the same feelings
of intimacy as parents in the first few weeks of bringing their baby home.
A deep and lasting level
of intimacy as a couple that buffers the early days of chaotic new parenting
Men, she says, want the same level
of intimacy as women do and define it the same way: «emotional support, disclosure and having someone to take care of them.»
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.»
Not exact matches
Hygge is sometimes translated
as «cozy,» but a better definition
of hygge is «intentional
intimacy,» which can happen when you have safe, balanced and harmonious shared experiences.
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.
Apps such
as uConsent allow potential sexual partners to tell each other what level
of physical
intimacy they are comfortable with
The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather than chronologically and reflect many
of the recurring themes
of Cash's oeuvre: love, sin, redemption, life, death... Adding to the
intimacy level, many
of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash,
as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.
No effort is made to teach the importance
of marriage
as the proper home for sexual
intimacy.»
In his patronizing dismissal
of abstinence programs, Saletan speaks
of «mating» ¯ meaning sexual
intimacy ¯
as an unstoppable force
of nature.
I have been enlightened by the life and wisdom
of Gandhi, but I have not experienced
intimacy with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that there are Hindus that have spiritually experienced the
intimacy with God that I
as a Christian have experienced.
In terms
of intimacy, I find my closet friends come
as much churched
as unchurched; but above all that I need to worship to receive and give thanks, in good times and in bad.
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.»
Voskamp's use
of imagery [in the last chapter
of One Thousand Gifts] to show the
intimacy of our relationship to God, has raised the question, «If we,
as Christians, were supposed to think about our relationship with God in sexual terms, wouldn't God have made that clear in His word?»
To eat Christ's flesh, incorporating it into yours (or yours into his,
as some see it), involves a physical
intimacy through which you participate directly in the Incarnation and anticipate the promised resurrection
of your body from the grave.
We often misinterpret any positive result found in our practices
as a byproduct
of the «discipline» performed instead
of the
intimacy achieved through acute focus.
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as passion instead
of intimacy and rest, we may...
If we are
as willing to go deep
as we are to be transparent on the surface, perhaps we can put authenticity and
intimacy to good use — and shape our relationships more in the image
of Christ.
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.
With the disciples, surely, it was otherwise; it was through the wounds
of his humanity,
as a French Roman Catholic writer once remarked, that the disciples came to the
intimacy of his divinity.
God wants us to have that same level
of intimacy with him
as well: not just to know about him by hearsay, but to meet him (cf. Job 42:5).
However enjoyable it might be, masturbation fails to fulfill this form
of human sexuality, and
as such is corrosive to the integrity
of our persons and our
intimacy of the Spirit.
The central problem in achieving
intimacy is described by Levy and Monroe in The Happy Family
as «combining the distinct and often antagonistic needs
of two individuals into a workable, satisfying union.»
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.)
Intimacy is nurtured
as a couple develops complementary ways
of living.
Some
of what you label
as sin is just crime and the rest is disproportionate aversion to human
intimacy.
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.
It is not clear what a relationship based on absolute otherness or separation would mean especially in the relationship between God and the believer, which many describe
as a relationship
of love, worship and
intimacy.
Further, in the
intimacy of the bhakti relationship the male bhakta, by experiencing himself
as female partner violates his primal sexual demarcation
as a male.
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 creates a sense
of privacy such that people often say remarkable things, just
as they bellow
intimacies into their cell phone while on the commuter train.
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.»
We have to learn how to be friends...
intimacy with God is developed through intentional spiritual practices and habits... Such habits form us into people
of virtue capable
of living
as the friends
of God we are created to be,» Makant says.
Thus love is life affirming and healthy,
intimacy flows from it which elevates the individual in the freedom to love
as well
as bonds the couple in that mutual exchange
of giving and receiving their deepest selves, one to another.
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.
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 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 relationship
as a foundation for intimate relationships.
Thus, one guideline to increasing sexual
intimacy and pleasure is to improve the quality
of the marriage
as a whole.
He will examine the role
of intimacy to the first, second, and third power (examples: the circle
of Jesus» followers, the renewed
intimacy on the basis
of the experience
of the sixteenth century Reformers, the Pietist group
of the seventeenth century, etc.)
As far as the constitution of religious groups is concerned we find a variety of principle
As far
as the constitution of religious groups is concerned we find a variety of principle
as the constitution
of religious groups is concerned we find a variety
of principles.