kickycan wrote:I've done that. Like I said, it comes down to how confortable you feel. I haven't felt that degree of intimacy in a while, that's all.
Some people have deeply ingrained patterns for sabotaging relationships. Some may instinctively terminate a relationship once it moves to a certain level of closeness and intimacy. When we start to feel close to someone we may zero in on one of the person's character defects, then make it so big it's all we can see. We may withdraw, or push the person away to create distance. We may start criticizing the other person, a behavior sure to create distance.
Sometimes, we choose people with particular faults so that when it comes time to be close we have an escape hatch.
All negative behaviors boil down to fear. A continuous lack of intimacy could be fear of being hurt, should a relationship become deeper/more involved emotionally, or it could be a fear of losing ourselves/autonomy.
I'm going to recommend a book, this is the BEST book I have found for dealing with these issue and MANY others. Everyone should read it just to keep in check. It's called 'If It Hurts It Isn't Love' by Chuck Spezzano, PhD.
Don't let the title throw you off. P.S. I'm reading it :-)