#inherentlydynamic

[autonomousintimate]

Fireworks 🎇… cherry blossoms 🌸… intrinsic ephemerality doesn’t detract from our capacity to, and the validity of, delight in such experiences.

I appreciate express contemplation, at the outset, of the potential for eventual transition, acknowledging the inherent fluidity of intimacy while realizing and embracing the fundamentally autotelic nature of loving connection. 💗

[autonomousintimate]

The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year…. Yet we reiterate love! love! as if it were a coin with a fixed value....

D.H. Lawrence

[autonomousintimate]

* we’re ;)

We lose nothing by acknowledging and accepting the illusory nature of “security,” and in doing so we can reframe any unreasonable sense of entitlement and expectations (which, after all, essentially constitute premeditated resentments) to engage in more authentic and fulfilling pleasure, connection, and intimacy.

[autonomousintimate]

Autonomy is essential to authentic intimacy, which is autotelic and inherently dynamic.

[autonomousintimate]