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Sexual Intimacy
From deprivation to desire.
Originally published at Psychology Today
Hungering for sexual intimacy? If this hunger exists within you, an innate and known terror can align with your psyche and interrupt the very desire you have. And for good reason. It requires something many people would rather avoid: to actually let yourself be seen and known to another, and, most importantly, to the Self.
This kind of intimacy, the intimacy of internal and external partnerships, the intimacy to be seen As You Are or As I Am, is the trailblazer that primes you for the kind of sexual intimacy you imagine within the core of your soul.
To be loved as you truly are, the part of you that’s vulnerable and can tangle with being transparent needs to come out of the cave. What cave is that, you ask? I think you already know the cave. It’s where you hide, conceal what you know about yourself and rarely invite others to see and be with the real you. What is a real and honest appraisal of the self? Think about the following as part of an intimacy self-assessment and what is hidden from the others and ultimately, the self. Do you disguise…
The you who is more the introvert than the extrovert. Or vice versa?
