Posts Tagged ‘intimacy’
First Comes Love, Then Comes…CELIBACY?! Reigniting a Sexless Marriage.
Tyler and Sam describe themselves as best friends. They value personal freedom, honest communication, happy hours and an occasional home-spun puppet show. After six years together, they feel closer than ever. There’s just one problem: They don’t have sex. Okay, they do have sex, but it is an awkward, drunken event that may occur three…
The check-in: an exercise to nurture intimacy and the tolerance of deep connection
In my experience working with couples, it’s not uncommon to find that partners have a considerable difference in their need or tolerance for emotional contact and intimacy. One partner may be more emotionally expressive and generally talkative, while the other may be less emotionally expressive and less comfortable with one-to-one contact with their partner. Contrary…
A Few Ways of Inviting Connection & Intimacy
This blog will be light on the prose and heavier on just a few exercises/tips/doorways into a fuller heartfelt connection with yourself, or with your intimate partner. It is also worth mentioning that greater intimacy with self always has a positive impact on your openness to intimacy, vulnerability, and thus connection, with another, from the…