How To Build Emotional Intimacy: The Ultimate Guide For 2022
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- 19 Oct 2022
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Emotional intimacy is one of the most beautiful, fulfilling things the human experience has to offer. It’s one of our core fundamental needs, and it’s a key reason we seek out and enter into relationships:
· To experience loving and being loved
· To share and connect through our inner worlds
· To be known, and to know another deeply
Yet despite its importance to us, exactly how to build emotional intimacy is often confusing, frustrating, and overwhelming.
But building emotional intimacy is a skill. And just like any other skill, it’s one that can be developed.
Whether you’re rebuilding intimacy in your marriage, or looking to increase emotional intimacy in your relationship, these intimacy techniques will help you to build trust and deepen connection.
And bring you closer than ever before.
Let’s get started.
What Is Emotional Intimacy?
Emotional intimacy is a feeling of closeness and connection with someone. It’s a sense of being deeply seen, known, and understood. It requires vulnerability, empathy, a high level of trust, and finely-attuned communication skills.
Or as popular researcher (and all-round vulnerability bad-ass) Dr. Brené Brown says in her book The Gifts Of Imperfection:
What Are Signs of Emotional Intimacy?
· A feeling of safety and trust in your relationship
· Physical affection and warmth
· Feeling that you know each other on a deep, meaningful level
· A sense of fun, playfulness, and shared humour
· A willingness to communicate and share your inner worlds
How this looks in every relationship is unique.
In our marriage, we know that we feel emotionally intimate when:
We’re cuddling in the kitchen, spending quality time together on our weekends, laughing over silly jokes that only we find funny, and when we feel safe turning towards each other with our problems and challenges. Read More…
