Quotes About Intimacy

but our real interest is not in the food. We are on a quest to discover love.

Love is not the answer to everything, but it creates a climate of security in which we can seek answers to those things that bother us. In the security of love, a couple can discuss differences without condemnation.

soledad es devastadora para la psique humana. Es por eso que el confinamiento solitario se considera uno de los castigos más crueles. En el corazón de la existencia del género humano está el deseo de tener intimidad con otro y de que nos ame.

love Him. — Brian Varney —

We all need to hear the words "I love you." — Mary Laufer

I am convinced that keeping the emotional love tank full is as important to a marriage as maintaining the proper oil level is to an automobile. Running your marriage on an empty "love tank" may cost you even more than trying to drive your car without oil.

Knowing is not enough. Loving is the best part of knowing. — Joseph Compaine —

On a scale of 0–10, how full is your love tank?

Reprosurile legate de comportament ale partenerului sunt un indiciu clar despre limbajul principal al iubirii. [...] Reprosurile sunt o modalitate ineficienta de a cere iubirea.

Physical touch can make or break a relationship. It can communicate hate or love. To the person whose primary love language is physical touch, the message will be far louder than the words "I hate you" or "I love you." A

those who don't divorce, do they learn to live with the emptiness, or does love really stay alive in some marriages?

How do we meet each other's deep, emotional need to feel loved? If we can learn that and choose to do it, then the love we share will be exciting beyond anything we ever felt when we were infatuated.

The emotional need for love, however, is not simply a childhood phenomenon. That need follows us into adulthood and into marriage. The

The euphoria of the "in-love" state gives us the illusion that we have an intimate relationship.

My husband tells me that he loves me, but to me, words are cheap. 'I love you. I love you.' I'm sick of words. Where are the gifts?

Cuando me siento con mi esposa y le presto veinte minutos de toda mi atención y ella hace lo mismo para mí, nos damos veinte minutos de vida. Nunca más tendremos esos veinte minutos; nos damos nuestras vidas el uno al otro. Esto es un poderoso comunicador emocional de amor.

Little by little, the illusion of intimacy evaporates, and the individual desires, emotions, thoughts, and behavior patterns assert themselves. They are two individuals. Their minds have not melded together, and their emotions mingled only briefly in the ocean of love.

On the other hand, we can share pain, sadness, and even anger in a kind manner, and that will be an expression of love. "I felt disappointed and hurt that you didn't offer to help me this evening," said with gentle directness, can be an expression of love. The person speaking wants to be known by her spouse. She is taking steps to build intimacy by sharing her feelings.

We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was—a temporary emotional high—and now pursue "real love" with our spouse.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

When a wife says, "I wish my husband would talk. I never know what he's thinking or feeling," she is pleading for intimacy.

they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the "in love" obsession.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

Soon you will be home and in my arms and the world will reconfigure itself around you and there will be enough compassion for you to feel scared by how much I care for you.