Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for…

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

— Harriet Lerner

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

— Claude M. Bristol

When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your…

— Jon Tenney

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

— Hannah Simone

Emotional intimacy doesnt just happen because you are in a relationship with someone. Intimacy, like trust, has to be built. It takes conscious choices…

— Anonymous

“Emotional intimacy involves knowing that you have someone you can tell anything to, someone to go to with all your feelings, about anything and…

— Lindsay C. Gibson

“Too much intimacy, too quickly, can cause women to become needy and men to pull away. Just as men have a tendency to rush…

— John Gray

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

— John Green

What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated, while at…

— Gary Chapman

“vows and promises aren’t the fuel relationships run on. Relationship are sustained by the pleasure of emotional intimacy, the feeling that someone is interested…

— Lindsay C. Gibson

Intimacy is not entirely physical. In fact, it can have no physical interaction at all. For an intimate relationship to take place, allow someone…

— U

“When there is inconsistency in belief and action (such as being violated by someone who is supposed to love you) our mind has to…

— Rosenna Bakari

“In monogamy, a romantic partner and a sexual partner are, almost by definition, the same person. Emotional intimacy and physical intimacy are so tightly…

— Eve Rickert

“Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance…

— Nancy McWilliams

“The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills…

— Anne Katherine