We often think that sex leads to intimacy, and while this can be true, it's more often the case that it's the other way ...

The first, and probably most well-known form of intimacy is sexual. As you can probably guess, this can be achieved through engaging in sexual actions with another party. But physicality isn’t the ...

There’s a lot of confusion about intimacy, what it really is, and how to make it happen. There are couples married decades that can be physically close but don’t know how to be emotionally intimate.

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...