The Importance Of Opening Up in Relationships
Posted: January 29, 2013
Tips on how to open up and express emotions in relationships.
Fear of intimacy is the main reason people do not open up emotionally with another person. I define intimacy as feeling safe with another person when you expose who you are to them. Intimacy involves protecting your loved one rather than exploiting their vulnerabilities. Intimacy is not just sex. I am proposing that there are a huge range of emotions and behaviors that add to intimacy (deepening) in your relationship. Your feelings are the key to discovering what those behaviors are for you.
If you want a closer, deeper, emotionally safer relationship you can choose to identify your feelings and share them with your partner.
Practical tips to discovering and sharing your emotions with another person.
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