This false notion of the body as the testing ground for intimacy has long warped our understanding of what constitutes a romantic relationship. The m… - Maria Popova

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This false notion of the body as the testing ground for intimacy has long warped our understanding of what constitutes a romantic relationship. The measure of intimacy is not the quotient of friction between skin and skin, but something else entirely — something of the love and trust, the joy and ease that flow between two people as they inhabit that private world walled off from everything and everyone else.