Intimacy is a feeling of closeness, an emotional bond and connectedness with another person and the yearning to share each other’s most inner thoughts and feelings. Real intimacy makes us feel alive like we've been found, as if someone finally took the time to peer into the depths of our soul and see us there. Until then, until we experience true intimacy, we will feel passed over and ignored, like someone is looking right through us. Intimacy is more than being satisfied in the bedroom. Compounding the wide-scale deprivation of intimacy we actually experience, our cultural talent for commercialization has separated out sex from intimacy (Hana 2014). In fact, intimacy involves both emotional and physical closeness and openness. But we wind
