ritualized, compulsive self-disclosure is not intimacy it’s often a defense mechanism, one that masquerades as vulnerability but actually kills erotic charge, polarity, and mystery shared experience, unspoken tension, and real-time attunement are the components of intimacy

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“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.” — Alain de Botton