“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~C.G. Jung~

We yearn for intimacy

We yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it. We want it, but we run from it. . . At some deep level, we sense that we have a PROFOUND NEED for intimacy, but we are also afraid to go there. . . Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets. Being intimate means sharing the secrets of our hearts, minds, and souls with another fragile and imperfect human being. Intimacy requires that we allow another person to discover what moves us, what inspires us, what drives us, what eats at us, what we are running toward, what we are running from, what silent self destructive enemies lie within us, and what wild and wonderful dreams we hold in our hearts. . .
To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of our yourself with that person. We have to be willing to take off our masks and let down our guard, to set aside our pretenses and share what is shaping us and directing our lives. This is the GREATEST GIFT we could ever give to another human being. . .  To allow him/her to simply see us for who we are, with our strengths and weaknesses, faults, failings, flaws, defects, talents, abilities, achievements, and potential.
Intimacy requires that we allow another person into our heart, mind, body, and soul. . . In its purest form, it is a complete and unrestrained sharing of self. Not all relationships are worthy of such a complete intimacy, but our primary relationship should be. What is intimacy? It is the process of mutual self revelation that inspires us to give ourselves completely to another person in the mystery we call love.
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