Gender Differences Between Intimacy Between Women And Women

Intimacy is defined as close familiarity or friendship; closeness. In general, women and men seem to differ in their definitions of intimacy. Men and women are primary similar, but an area we do tend to see a significant difference is in the experience and definition of intimacy. This is due to communal and agentic attributes and traits men and women have been taught to acquire. Women seem to believe that intimacy means love, affection, and the expression of warm feelings, while men believe it to mean sexual behavior and physical closeness. Consequently, this gender difference often leads to difficulties with intimacy in the marital relationship itself. For women, talking and sharing provides self disclosure and is associated with intimacy. Moreover, women self disclose more than men, but they do it directly where men do it indirectly. This could range from talking with friends, to pillow talk after sex, to talking with a professional. Furthermore, when looking for intimacy either sex goes to women. This could be because are global culture still defaults to women as the holders of intimate “secrets.” This stems from the thought that women know things that …show more content…
Despite dissatisfaction with gender inequalities in domestic tasks and finance - many women express unhappiness primarily with what they perceive as men's unwillingness or incapacity to `do' the emotional intimacy which appears to them necessary to sustain close heterosexual couple relationships. We illustrate how similar discussions of gender differences in emotional behaviour have emerged elsewhere, raising questions about how far men's and women's emotional behaviour can and should change. Whereas, in homosexual couple relationships individuals have to adapt to new gender roles and take on characteristics that differ from the norm. Or learn to create intimacy symbiotically, where both individuals have similar gender