That true intimacy required not only disclosure, but also vulnerability.
Never in her life had Patience known a single moment of true intimacy with her father.
Ellimara came the closest, and even then, the difference in their ages made true intimacy difficult.
He did not know whether it was due habit, hers being single, or a decision to avoid any true intimacy.
Real relationships get past romantic feelings to true love and true intimacy.
It's about going deeper than that, attaining true intimacy.
She would die at his hands, and that would be their one moment of true intimacy.
Real, true intimacy is incredibly frightening because you're making yourself so vulnerable to hurt.
Any intimate relationship with David would still lack the one most essential element of true intimacy.
But if he craved true intimacy, he had to share his thoughts.