Intimacy!
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The best definition of intimacy that I've ever heard was being "fully known and fully loved." Simply put, it is the feeling of security because someone fully knows all of your past including shortcomings and major failings, fully knows your present life including flaws fears and quirks and unconditionally loves you in spite of it all.
Yeah, its the area of the 'craving intimacy' were people go wrong...secular thought is becoming or has become preoccupied with the physical. and it never satisfies.. the only way we can actually be intimate beings is being intimate with the one who created us..
In relationships males and females tend to think differently? would that be a true statement that men would tend to act out as in sexual and think that's intimacy whereas females tend to go for the feeling side of things...? Its just something that I read on another thread got me thinking about this. Have we lost track of what intimacy actually is? I find it disturbing to think that culture teaches that 'sexual compatibility' is what its all about. This view is a very,very clever deception. Because in order for something to be compatibility you have to measure it against something else.. the assumption is numerous partners.. only then can you decide.. that's were it is a very clever deception, but it will never satisfy, because if anyone follows that ideology they will never know for sure...
The view I hold is that intimacy is not a physical act, Although the physical act is intimate, it only stems from its not the basis.
I think your right oncefallen about knowing about a partners past, albeit we don't need to know every single detail.. but it sets and even keel of a truthful base for intimacy. We all can have hang ups about our past and especially a future partners past.. but there is one thing we always and must bear in mind. like you they are also a new creation in Jesus.
In relationships males and females tend to think differently? would that be a true statement that men would tend to act out as in sexual and think that's intimacy whereas females tend to go for the feeling side of things...? Its just something that I read on another thread got me thinking about this. Have we lost track of what intimacy actually is? I find it disturbing to think that culture teaches that 'sexual compatibility' is what its all about. This view is a very,very clever deception. Because in order for something to be compatibility you have to measure it against something else.. the assumption is numerous partners.. only then can you decide.. that's were it is a very clever deception, but it will never satisfy, because if anyone follows that ideology they will never know for sure...
The view I hold is that intimacy is not a physical act, Although the physical act is intimate, it only stems from its not the basis.
I think your right oncefallen about knowing about a partners past, albeit we don't need to know every single detail.. but it sets and even keel of a truthful base for intimacy. We all can have hang ups about our past and especially a future partners past.. but there is one thing we always and must bear in mind. like you they are also a new creation in Jesus.
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Yes, God definitely created us for intimacy, and especially for intimacy with Him. Hence, the void in our hearts that can only be satisfied by Him.
I think men and women seek intimacy physically and emotionally. Though I believe that people who have a more worldly perspective view sex as part of that intimacy. Though sex has its own beautiful intimacy, it is more beautiful with the right person after marriage as we all know.
I will state that as a woman, I do crave for physical and emotional intimacy. I want someone who gets and laughs at my dumb jokes. Someone where we, as stated before, knows all my faults but still loves me regardless. Even more, to have someone who loves some of my flaws and is able to find beauty in them. I definitely miss having someone I can tell every single thing to and actually feel like they care and are just not simply trying to act like they care. I miss holding hands, cuddling and kissing. I miss those gentle yet settle physical gestures that tells me he loves me. Something as simple as when he glances at you from across the room in the middle of a busy night with guests would even be a gesture of physical and emotional intimacy.
I think intimacy is a beautiful thing. Really.
I think men and women seek intimacy physically and emotionally. Though I believe that people who have a more worldly perspective view sex as part of that intimacy. Though sex has its own beautiful intimacy, it is more beautiful with the right person after marriage as we all know.
I will state that as a woman, I do crave for physical and emotional intimacy. I want someone who gets and laughs at my dumb jokes. Someone where we, as stated before, knows all my faults but still loves me regardless. Even more, to have someone who loves some of my flaws and is able to find beauty in them. I definitely miss having someone I can tell every single thing to and actually feel like they care and are just not simply trying to act like they care. I miss holding hands, cuddling and kissing. I miss those gentle yet settle physical gestures that tells me he loves me. Something as simple as when he glances at you from across the room in the middle of a busy night with guests would even be a gesture of physical and emotional intimacy.
I think intimacy is a beautiful thing. Really.