The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

What keeps people together in dynamic relationships? A common purpose.

2. The seven levels of intimacy are not a task to be completed and graduate from.

The meaning and purpose of marriage is for two people to challenge and encourage each other to become the-best-version-of-themselves, and then to raise their children and

4. You cannot rush intimacy. You cannot force the seven levels; these things don’t happen on a timetable, nor are they rigid.

educate them to become the-best-version-of-themselves.

3. It is also important to know that not all relationships deserve to experience all seven levels of intimacy, nor are they meant to.

1. Relationships are rarely confined to any single level.

These are the rules and guidelines that govern the model.

Until you are comfortable with yourself at each of the seven levels of intimacy, you will never go there with another person.