Intimacy involves feelings of emotional closeness and connectedness with another person. Intimate relationships are often characterized by attitudes of mutual trust, caring, and acceptance.
A healthy functional intimate relationship is based on equality and respect, not power and control. Think about how you treat (and want to be treated by) someone you care about.
Broadly speaking, intimacy means deeply
knowing someone, while also feeling deeply known yourself. It is something
humans crave, and though at times, it may seem more difficult for men
to express it, that doesn't mean they don't need or want it.
Physical intimacy is about touch and closeness between bodies. In a romantic relationship, it might include holding hands, cuddling, kissing, and sex. Your relationship doesn't have to be sexual or romantic to have physical intimacy.
Intimacy means allowing yourself to be honest and vulnerable. To be in an intimate relationship, you have to allow yourself to be fully seen for all that you are and declare to your partner, "This is the truth about who I am and who I want to become."
