Intimacy is the degree to which a person can share feelings with another in a relationship. Intimacy is occasionally linked with sex but it can also occur in a nonsexual or unromantic relationship. The dialectics of connection-autonomy and openness-closedness manipulate the communication of intimacy betweepartners.
v Connection Autonomy- Relationships require both desire to connect to another person and the desire to retain autonomy as an individual; we want to connect to others like friends, family, co workers, but we also want to retain control and independence or autonomy over our lives.
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“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.”
—Deborah Tannen (20th century)
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