How do you perceive your intimate zone?

What does it mean for you? Have you ever experienced a change in your perception of it?
Do you let people get close to you easily? I don't mean just physically, I mean emotionally too.
How do you perceive the intimate zone of others?
How did/would you deal with sharing a room with a stranger while living at the dorm?

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bijouxbroussard · F

I’m pretty guarded, mostly because of negative experiences—like having had a nightmare of a roommate in college.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@bijouxbroussard What did she do? (I assume your roommate was a woman. Or wasn't?)

bijouxbroussard · F

@CrazyMusicLover She was, and she was a stranger. She had assumptions: I’m wholly Californian in attitude, even though my parents were southerners, and I’m comfortable with LGBTQ folks, counted many as friends even then. This was also a traditionally black college, and she came from a very old respectable [b]religious[/b] black family (daughter of a Baptist minister—also didn’t like me being Catholic) and my having white friends and [b]relatives[/b] troubled her. She was prepared to see me as “other” and dislike me intensely. The feelings quickly became mutual. 😒

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@bijouxbroussard Oooh, that is easy to understand. I don't get along with people like this either.