Intimacy articles
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'Disability Intimacy' starts a long-overdue conversation
To whom does desire belong? How about love and care? These are the questions at the heart of “Disability Intimacy,” a new book of essays and ephemera collected by the San Francisco activist Alice Wong, and the answers are painfully obvious: Those human experiences are for everyone. What’s less obvious to many, and acutely painful to some of us, is that those questions needed to be asked and answered. This book needed to exist. It is a longstanding and unfortunate truth that disabled people are...
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The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence
Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so acutely and concretely a paradox that haunts our human lives in myriad guises — the difficulty of discerning comfort from entrapment, freedom from peril. It is a paradox rooted in the early development of the psyche and most poignantly manifested in our intimate relationships as we confront over and over the boundary between where we end and the other begins, the challenge of balancing intimacy...
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TV Stars Had Zero Intimacy For Half Their Marriage As Friend Calls Out 'red Flag'
90 Day Fiancé stars Sophie and Rob haven’t been a part of the franchise for long, but what they lack in TV experience they make up for in relationship drama. The duo first appeared on the show last year, joining as newcomers to season 10. These days, TLC viewers are watching on to see if […]