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Originally Posted By: avermont
I'm trying to imagine this intimacy thing with another person--I thought I was doing it with X--and if that wasn't intimacy--if he didn't feel connected to me on a "deep, personal level" as he said enroute out the door--then I have quite the journey to make discovering what intimacy is.
Relationship author Terry Real defines intimacy as "choosing to live in truth with another." I liked that the first time I read it, though I first thought, "though that doesn't cover it all"

The more I thought about it, the more I thought, "Yeah...it does."
Originally Posted By: avermont
Oh, dear, just started crying as I typed out "one year."
((( frown )))


Gardener

"My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own."
Cyrano deBergerac