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 religious black family (daughter of a Baptist minister—also didn’t like me being Catholic) and my having white friends and relatives 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.