Closeness and intimacy | Sep 17 2004

• Closeness sustains the relationship, intimacy improve the relationship.
  
  Being close doesn’t mean intimate, intimacy can happen over distance, just like couple who is thousand miles away may still feel the other party is being with him/her, since they are intimate in mind, even not close in distance.
  
  People can feel the intimacy with sky, ocean and mountain while they are not even close to them. If you can feel them without “see” them, you are intimate with them. Someone see them closely, but not feel them at all.
  
  How about sex, yes, it can be closeness or intimacy, or both. Is it that purely physical thing? Not really. When you are close to your lover’s body, touching is not just touching, is feeling, feeling the heart of your lover, animate, spiritual, exciting with every touch, just because of love, or say, intimacy.
  
  While closeness is partnership, intimacy is deep connection, which can be associated with life and death. We can afford losing everything, but not connection, particularly, that with the one we love, otherwise, life is bogus.
  
  

• RyiapExcellent. I love it.
• littleAgree with most said by Snowbaby. Personally, however, I think these two words (i.e. Closeness and Intimacy) are exchangible in terms of meaning.

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