Intimacy

Growth Through Negotiation: Intimacy, Commitment
by Toni Coleman, LCSW
This is a very challenging and growing time in all relationship building. Reality comes into play as the couple settles into the comfort and predictability of their togetherness. Little issues can become blown-up into large conflicts.

Introduction
How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
by Terrence Real
The relationship between men and women is in trouble, and it has been for over a generation. The relatively stable divorce rate over the past few decades indicates that the advent of couple's therapy in the 1950s has so far yielded nothing potent enough

Getting Love Right
Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (A Fireside/Parkside Recovery Book)
by Terence T. Gorski, M.A., N.C.A.C.
On a fundamental level, relationships represent a search for that wholeness, a search for completeness and the ability to feel as one with another human being. In many ways, this striving for unity with another person is a fool's game.

The Enchanted Sea
Enchanted Love
by Marianne Williamson
Mystical love, like mystical anything, exists in a different realm of consciousness than the one that dominates our daily lives. Emotional enchantment is conjured up, brought forth, and summoned from the underworld.

Intimacy in Relationships: Casual Sex
For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives
by Catherine M. Wallace, Ph.D.
I argued throughout the preceding chapter, in various ways, that sexual desire is far more than a simple physiological need. Sexual desire is powerfully and intricately interwoven with the deepest levels of human identity and with the most difficult

Seven Soul-Commitments That Allow the Conscious Heart to Thrive
The Conscious Heart: Seven Soul-Choices That Create Your Relationship Destiny
by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D.
In the first two years of our own relationship, we spent much time finding out what true commitment was all about. We had no models to follow. Our parents had married into traditional relationship that emphasized duty and hard work.

Opening to Love
The New Intimacy: Discovering the Magic at the Heart of Your Differences
by Judith Sherven, Ph.D., James Sniechowski, Ph. D.
At the heart of the new intimacy is the capacity to consciously open yourself and take in more and more of who your partner truly is. That's much easier when what you want to take in is familiar, something you already know and like.

What is a Healthy Relationship Anyway?
The Intimacy Struggle: Revised and Expanded for All Adults
by Janet Woititz
What does a healthy relationship look like? What does it feel like? How do I get one? How will I know if I have one? These are very important and real questions that need to be addressed.

Barriers To Relationship Intimacy: Avoid the Dirty Dozen
The Relationship Handbook
by Jan Maizler, MSW, LCSW
The following twelve areas are pitfalls in any relationship, that if allowed to flourish will cause that relationship to degrade and suffer. 1. Insufficient shared information creates a relationship vacuum and promotes guessing, projection, and suspicion.

Sharing Intimacy
Love is No Guarantee! What you Need to Know before You fall in Love
by Peter Hector
All you need is love. It's no accident that John Lennon's words have stuck in the minds of people everywhere. But even before we heard John Lennon or the Beatles, we were told that love conquers all.

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy, Part 3
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Having fulfilled their function (by listening to the narcissist, by asking his advice in an ego-inflating manner) — other people would do best to vanish until needed next time. The narcissist would feel drained if asked to reciprocate.

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy, Part 2
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
The narcissist is almost always the third kind of communicator. This, obviously, is a gross over-simplification. Still, this profile provides an insight into the mating mechanism of the narcissist. With the narcissist, the whole sexual timetable is

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Uniqueness and intimacy are strong rivals. First, intimacy implies a certain acquaintance of the partner with privileged information. Such partially or wholly withheld information leads to a sense of superiority and mystery, which vanishes with disclosure

Defining Intimacy

How do you define intimacy? When you envision an intimate relationship, what do you see? Have you observed relationships that appear to be filled with intimacy? Have you experienced frustration or sadness due to a lack of intimacy in a present or past rel

Become his treasured source of intimacy
by Peta Heskell
Even though guys are programmed to be tough and conceal their emotions they are still emotional beings. Sometimes we women think that we have a monopoly on 'feelings'. We don't. We also need to understand that men handle their emotions differently.

The Art of Sexual Intimacy
by Paul Mauchline
Do you feel comfortable talking about sex? How did you learn about sex? Growing up, did your parents communicate and discuss sexuality openly, or did you just get the birds and the bees? Have you utilized resources such as books, videos