Relationships

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

“Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.”

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Mahmoud Darwish