When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
—Mary Elizabeth Braddon—
Intimacy is a bonding agent that softens our exteriors while it hushes the inner rumblings and creates a need for itself. None of us is spared that need.
Having at least one other with whom we are intimate heals us, keeps us honest, and strengthens us for what lies ahead.When intimacy is absent from our lives, it’s terribly easy to lose ourselves—to clarity about our identity, to lose confidence and self-assurance. And these losses contribute both to a strong need for intimacy once again, and to a heightened sense of the risk involved in being open and intimate.
Any time we break the intimate bond, we impede our progress as growing, healthy persons. Mental and emotional health is directly proportionate to how close we allow another person to be to us. My emotional health to day is in my control. I’ll let someone in.