intimacy thresholds
the paradox of craving to be seen but fearing being known
substack.comThe Intimacy Illusion
museguided.substack.com“Ultimately, the most challenging intimacy is the one we cultivate with ourselves. To sit alone and meet our own eyes without flinching. To know our hunger, our contradictions, our unbearable tenderness, and respond with compassion rather than contempt. Self-intimacy is not navel-gazing; it’s the soil from which all other closenessgrows. Without
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