This pretty much sums it up right here.

The opposite of loneliness is intimacy — the act of revealing your whole self to someone else and having them reciprocate. It is something you can only do one-on-one, face-to-face, soul-to-soul. When we stop taking hacks at softball pitches and start swinging for the fences, our acts and ideas first clear, then crumble, the walls we’ve built to protect ourselves. Intimacy is an act of love, an act of self-love, and an act of defiance all in one. It’s gritty, emotional, raw, unfiltered, unabashed, unpretentious and unguarded. It’s more than talking about things together. It’s being and becoming about things together.
The Art of Intimacy
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dori mondon
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Feb 1, 2018
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This pretty much sums it up right here. What a beautiful piece of writing, and absolute truth. I wish, perhaps, it hadn’t taken me 44 years to learn how to “do” intimacy right, but it has. My wife and I got married in our early 40s, both of us for the first and hopefully only time. We’re learning to navigate this road. What a royal pain in the ass, and one of life’s greatest joys.
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Compulsive storyteller. Typo fixer. Queerdo. Dog and kid mom. Digital DJ nerd. Ada Comstock scholar. I love coffee. A lot. https://ko-fi.com/djemme
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