What constitutes intimacy?

Question

What SINGLE trait, if excluded, would cause intimacy to be impossible? What is the core trait constituting human intimacy?

Answer 1

Trust. Without trusting or being trustworthy, true intimacy cannot exist.

Answer 2

Live your life for ur partner then ur intimacy levels will increase because when u start to give up for her automatically she starts to live for you and ther will be no quarrels thereby life will be filled with happiness for both the parners.The core trait contituting human intimacy is not only 1 factor but a few important things they are love, understanding , trust and givingup these are all essential for a intimate relationship inthis world.

Answer 3

the one thing that would make intimacy impossible if excluded would be emotion. if you take away the feeling or emotion of Love, however you define it, then any contact or action between two people is just a pathway to sex; physical pleasure.

however with an emotional connection (love) any contact mutually desired by both parties would be considered intimacy it producing not only the physical pleasure but the emotional pleasure as well multiplying the effects of both. creating that intimacy

in my opinion.

Answer 4

The single most important trait that constitutes human intimacy is the sharing of one's heart and soul. You must open yourself up and make yourself vulnerable in order to experience intimacy. When this is shared with another person, there is no greater feeling on earth.

That's one man's opinion.

Thanks.

Answer 5

No love or trust would cause intimacy to be impossible. Trusting and knowing your partner in all ways possible constitutes intimacy.

Answer 6

intimacy - close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
familiarity, closeness
friendliness - a friendly disposition
2. intimacy - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
affaire, amour, liaison, affair, involvement
sexual relationship - a relationship involving sexual intimacy
3. intimacy - a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on"
closeness
belonging - happiness felt in a secure relationship; "with his classmates he felt a sense of belonging"
togetherness - affectionate closeness

Answer 7

Touch, without human touch intimacy is impossible. Which is probably why so many long distance relationships fail.

Answer 8

Empathy. Lack of ability to recognize and understand the emotion of another leads to the lack of intimacy (not strictly in the sexual sense, but in the truest sense of the word; simply, feelings of closeness with others).

Answer 9

Boredom

Answer 10

the smaller /thinner the gap between people th greater the intimacy