The Meaning of Intimacy
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The Meaning of Intimacy a defintion of Intimate
What is the meaning of intimacy? What intimacy means varies from relationship to relationship, and within a given relationship. From context to context, the definition of intimacy changes and the meanings varies.
Intimacy has more to do with shared moments than sexual interactions. Intimate feelings may be connected or confused with sexual arousal. Intimacy is linked with feelings of closeness, safety, trust and transparency among partners in a collaborative relationship.
For intimacy to be sustainable and nourishing it also requires trust, transparency and rituals of connection. It is possible to compete over intimacy but that is likely to be self-defeating. Intimacy requires empathy - the ability to stand in the others shoes.
This lens is the place to focus on the meanings of intimacy. A key ingredient in life, many of us would like more ot it.
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Tell Us What Intimacy Means to You
Intimacy and its true meaning
Everyone knows what they mean by intimacy but what do you consider real intimacy. This is the place to express yourself, give your own opinion or tell us a story about an intimate experience in your life.
By sharing your ideas about intimacy with others here, you can move human knowledge forward about this powerful experience. We welcome your comments.
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karmicchristian
Aug 14, 2011 @ 9:27 pm | delete
- Intimacy IMO can only happen with two soulfully connected individuals!
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BarbRad
Apr 2, 2011 @ 12:31 am | delete
- It's feeling I can be myself and be accepted as I am without fear of attack. It's also a willingness for two people to be vulnerable without either fearing a negative reaction from the other.
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raosrinivas
Jan 3, 2011 @ 8:10 am | delete
- lovely said, intimacy is purely diffrent from sex, intimacy has its own force,its own love,its own definition,when you are near to that you will recognise that. Thanks for sharing.
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lovelyka
Jul 13, 2009 @ 3:08 am | delete
- Wow! Did this lens just made my day? I have a question though, how do you find Asian girls and guys in the dating scene?
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lovelyka
Jul 13, 2009 @ 3:08 am | delete
- Wow! Did this lens just made my day? I have a question though, how do you find Asian girls and guys in the dating scene?
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Some of my favorite links:
Asian Chat
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Intimacy defined
Was is the meaning of intimacy. The dictionary defines intimacy as " aa close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group." Somehow that does not do it for me. Intimacy is more than this somewhat sterile definition.But then how should we define intimacy. The answer: you know intimacy by how it feels. Once you have ad an intimate experience, its meaning becomes simple and evident. It is the making of intimate connection that seems to be what life is all about.
But each of our human experiences with intimacy is different. That is what we wil explore on this lens -- the wide varieties of human intimacy.
Quotes About Intimacy
Through famous quotations about intimacy, you get an idea of what real intimacy means. By putting things in words that connect to us, they define intimacy. Here are a few . . .But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield
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Intimacy Meaning Talk
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- Deexolove
- Scariest dream ever.. I HATE snakes. My dream has the weirdest meaning too, it signifies "my" fears of sex, intimacy or commitment. Lol
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- RedHeadAme
- RT @ticklemeDevo: Intimacy losses all meaning when it's told to anyone other than the two people in the relationship.
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- stephenfee
- RT @malbenz: I just whispered "Happy Valentines Day" to my sandwich b/c I have intimacy issues, meaning I get to emotionally involved with my sandwiches.
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- lisalankford
- RT @malbenz: I just whispered "Happy Valentines Day" to my sandwich b/c I have intimacy issues, meaning I get to emotionally involved with my sandwiches.
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touch
need remains
naked
skin reflects light
light grows
touch
hands fingers cells
you
my dream calls
it sings
it screams for
touch
desire in the afternoon
the streets are dirty
reflect heat
body glimpsed
drive on
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must remain calm
touch
i want it
need grows
tremors in my body
transmit life
youth blooms
on the beaches
searching the sand
and then
touch
Bruce Eisner
Santa Cruz Ca
1982
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