#initimacy

[paperbacksunday]

Perhaps I loved prying. Perhaps insight was like touching—but without asking, without risk. In the words of Emanuele Tesauro: We enjoy seeing our own thoughts blossom in someone’s mind, while that someone is equally pleased to spy what our own mind furtively conceals.

André Aciman, ‘Intimacy’ in Alibis: Essays On Elsewhere

[paperbacksunday]

He had loved Paris and Berlin, not just for what they were but for the shadows that hovered over them—the shadow of time, the shadow of experience, and of wishdreams, a shadow that touched him like strange intimations from bridges and stonework but that could just as easily have emanated from deep within him and, like a film, left its imprint on the narrow passages and inner courtyards he grew to love so much.

André Aciman, ‘New York, Luminous’ in Alibis: Essays On Elsewhere

[relationshipsonline]

Improving assertiveness and active listening increases couple intimacy

Assertiveness is the ability to express your feelings and ask for what you want in the relationship and is a valuable communication skill. In successful couple relationships, both individuals tend to be quite assertive. Rather than assuming their partner can read their minds, they share how they feel and ask clearly and directly for what they want. Assertive individuals take responsibility for…

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[kristensfinalproject]

III. Intimacy

The second I’m back with you

Under the sheets making jokes and holding hands

The smells the sounds your skin your voice

My comforts

Even when everything feels so right that spark is gone

But I don’t miss it

It’s said that absence is longing

But for us absence is freedom

To grow

Apart then back together

km

2018

[matnel]

Bayer, J. B., Ellison, N. B., Schoenebeck, S. Y., & Falk, E. B. (2016). Sharing the small moments: ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat.

[4andrewmorris]

Some people are not used to the intimacy, so they look away. They can't just be together. They say something romantic and the other can't handle it, they don't know how to experience it, so they just look there eyes away.

Moshe Chaim Eade. (I can relate)

[harrymasouras]

november.2012