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I Want To Speak Of Intimacy

I created this group on EP as so many were getting passion and intimacy confused. Yes they can overlap,but [i]real intimacy[/i] is so much more.

It is a special shared moment feeding the heart, mind and soul. And it may be as innocent as holding hands. If that is how two, sharing a moment in time define it.

Or a shared bubble bath. Complete with massages and tender moments. Skin stroking skin, breathes breathed upon another...as well as sighs.

I'm the end, a lot of times we desire intimacy as much as love and acceptance.

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Challenger1 · M

Intimacy... openness, closeness, a lowering of barriers and a freedom to be oneself with someone who love you.

Intimacy, that comfort we all long for but are terrified. For to be intimate with someone is to be vulnerable to everything they are and to be open to the deepest of wounds.

Intimacy, is not passion you are right... it is nakedness, of the soul and mind and body. It is knowing and being known beyond the normal limits. It is a quite moment of soul searching with someone who touches the very deepest strings of your heart.

Elandra77

That is a great way to look at it- for we do expose our weaknesses and vulnerabilities with another at times while being that.

The older one gets , the more they desire intimacy and the more their heart may yearn for it. But- the older ones get may also be the ones with the more guarded hearts as they have become masters at putting up walls.

CoffeeFirst · 56-60, F

And ironically, as some people age, their libidos also go through the roof, men and women both. But they still want intimacy and can be guarded. Aging--ugh!

Challenger1 · M

@CoffeeFirst: Libidos being more connected to passion than to intimacy. I can be passionate about something without being intimate with it.

When one is talking about sex the best is likely when passion and intimacy are carefully bound up together in the act. Sex is the greatest example of physical intimacy and lovers passion, but both can occur without sex. And emotional intimacy can be separated from sex, though is most often connected because we are an emotional and physical species with our emotions and physical attributes interwoven.