“We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.” - Leo Buscaglia
I began to write a response and then scrapped it upon taking a few minutes away from the computer to actually ponder the question. Every word including love and intimacy have a dictionary definition. Though in actually defining abstract ideas such as intimacy, one hundred people will give you one hundred different definitions. Personally, I have never known an intimate moment to occur while being outside the company of another human being. I consider intimacy to be a private connection related to love, mutual understanding, trust, and respect. I may keep a journal, which details intimate events in my life, but the journal itself is not intimate. The recorded history within is. As stated in the opening quote, we must have love, could be translated intimacy, to survive
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I began to write a response and then scrapped it upon taking a few minutes away from the computer to actually ponder the question. Every word including love and intimacy have a dictionary definition. Though in actually defining abstract ideas such as intimacy, one hundred people will give you one hundred different definitions. Personally, I have never known an intimate moment to occur while being outside the company of another human being. I consider intimacy to be a private connection related to love, mutual understanding, trust, and respect. I may keep a journal, which details intimate events in my life, but the journal itself is not intimate. The recorded history within is. As stated in the opening quote, we must have love, could be translated intimacy, to survive ( ... )
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