tension and flow
I look at it, certainly, inside relationships and how we reconcile these two fundamental needs that often spring from different sources and pull us in different directions. And I also think that love and desire belong, a little bit, to both of these sets of human needs, as well. So they relate, and they also conflict. And herein lies the mys
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A beautiful relationship is when two people understand each other effortlessly because they reached similar truths independently. Not through mimicry, but through the slow, bruising pilgrimage of living. It’s not chemistry, it’s congruence: when your wounds rhyme, your silences speak the same dialect, and your humour trips on the same absurdities. ... See more
Tamarasubstack.comThis is the challenge of sexual intimacy, of bringing home the erotic. It is the most fearsome of all intimacies because it is all-encompassing. It reaches the deepest places inside us, and involves disclosing aspects of ourselves that are invariably bound up with shame and guilt. It is scary, a whole new kind of nakedness, far more revealing than
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