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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“I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)