Intimacy And Intimacy Relationship

trusts that affection is centered around reproducing, and for it to be significant, passion must be included.

* intimate relationships involve a high degree of love, trust, empathy and commitment from both partners

Intimacy – a personal loving relationship with another individual or group such as family and friends.

1. According to Robert Sternberg, love goes through 3 stages of love he calls “The three dimension of love; passion, intimacy, and commitment. Sternberg believes when you go through the three dimension of love, there are also seven different type of love. The seven different type of love is liking, infatuation, empty love, romantic love, fatuous love, companionate love, and consummate love. The first dimension of love is passion; it is the process where we first start falling in love with a partner. Passion is what I call the “getting to know each other” stage of a relationship. The second part of the three dimension of love is intimacy. Intimacy is when you feel close to a person whether it’s emotionally or physically. It is also a stage where you share your deepest secret about you to the person who you feel that you’re in love with. Intimacy is where you feel the closest in your relationship. The third and final stage of the three dimension of love is commitment. Commitment is the phase where people decide that being with that one person is enough and they would spend the rest of their life being together that leads to marriage and children. I feel that Sternberg’s dimension of love is associated to Erikson’s intimacy vs. isolation. “Adults seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound aloneness and isolation.” (Berger, p.525) I believe

The second language used to communicate love is “quality time.” This is when you spend time giving your partner your complete attention. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing as long as you are “connecting on

Intimacy is the process by which a couple becomes more private and personal with each other. This can either be categorized by physical, mundane, or emotional intimacy. Ways to improve these levels of intimacy in your relationship include showing a more public display of affection or by doing unexpected things for each other such as making Kanye a personal mixtape or by writing Kim a song.

This article presents the role of partner responsiveness in experiencing sexual desire in partners. The absence of sexual desire is considered an important index of disrupted relational harmony. This study examines the impact of partner responsiveness and intimacy building behavior and the effect on instilling desire for one’s partner. This article provides excellent background research and fundamental information on relationship factors that affect desire within a couple.

When people move from partner to partner, often with no intention of seeing the person again, they have to refrain from the natural inclinations to form a bond of trust with them. As Zimmerman states, “Rather than learning to approach the other with openness, the practice of hooking up encourages one to draw near to the other with distrust, doubt, and fear…hooking up in its most basic form, is simply about the ability to become unhooked from one’s partner” (Zimmerman 56). Although the natural human response to intimacy follows sexual behaviors, those who engage in “hooking up” must guard themselves, suppressing that desire, in order to continue this behavior without hanging on to past partners. This is not healthy behavior if one intends to enter into marriage in the long-run, as the practice of self-disclosure and trust is integral to a long term relationship. Again, Zimmerman writes, “the practice of hooking up fosters the skill of shutting down one’s mind and heart and allowing only one’s body to function as something to be consumed without any development of emotional or psychological intimacy” (Zimmerman 56). This is also unhealthy behavior for a future relationship. Constant practices of disrespect, objectification, and a lack of self-disclosure are sure to become habitual, and prevent

Kipnis introduces the term mutuality which is the ability to notice and meet the need of the partner. She believes that this can be achieved through daily communication between couples. However, mutuality may provoke mayhem as it demands people not only listen to others, but also willingly accept whatever aspects of their partners. As mutuality is mastered, couples will then have to move to advanced intimacy. Kipnis compares advance intimacy as opening up of each person on the examining table of relationship. It gives people a feeling of vulnerability as if all their interiors are taken away to be criticized by their partners. At the same time, such action of expressing one’s needs indicates that the partners have failed to achieve

“Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest” - C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

The feeling of affection is similar to finding peaceful refuge in a place that once used to be a gas chamber. A gas chamber is to be choked on, a gas chamber is used to kill, a gas chamber is used solely to end one’s life. Affection feels like fresh air that one has the option to breathe after being set in a massive room with only shower heads. One could run around trying to escape but somehow the walls that are farther than usual become closer in proximity one by one until the darkness creeps in and one succumbs. Affection is the light that guides one out through a small hole in the wall and out into the woods only twenty feet from a courtyard. Affection is the freshest of air sent to be breathed only through one’s lungs as to save thee.

For those who think sex will always be a casual thing—well, you’re wrong. Relationships still exist. It doesn’t necessarily have to mean you and your beau are intimate. It just means that two people deeply care about the health and welfare of each other. This is a good basis for any relationship and should not be taken for granted or misconstrued. When you take care of your relationship, you’re also taking care of yourself.

Genuine love is supernatural. In any case, it's more than that, as anybody in a relationship can let you know. Perused on to discover ten things you have to think about intimate love.

Creating and maintaining love involves validating communications between the partners on a variety of issues, including understanding and concern for the partner's personal and emotional needs, developing companionship, physical attractiveness.

There is some debate about this. Many people will tell you not to say 'I love you ' when you are being intimate with someone because it seems like something you are saying solely from passion, but I think that depends more on how your relationship has been going.