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.
Famous quotes containing the word intimacy:
“If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)