intimate

I'm very much like locked in with these actors and I feel very intimate and I love the energy of it.

The situations where these people become powerless, innocent, unworldly and too pure for their own good are intimate ones.

As a result, the faculties that would normally engage with intimate danger were cauterised and numbed and have remained so into adulthood, which accounts for the paradox of high competence and strength existing alongside severe passivity and powerlessness.

In the past 20 years, I've helped more than thousands of people across the world to help them make sense of their relationships from the most intimate spaces to the most public ones.

‘Avoidant’ is the term usefully coined by attachment theorists to define those of us who, through no fault of our own but with full responsibility for our condition, have grave difficulties around intimate relationships.