The Seven Levels of Intimacy

We all yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it.

We want it badly, but we often run from it.

At some deep level, we sense that we have a profound need for intimacy, but we are afraid to go there.

Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets.

Being intimate means sharing the secrets of our hearts, minds, and souls with another fragile and imperfect human being.

Intimacy requires that we allow another person to discover what moves us, what inspires us, what drives us, what eats at us, what we are running toward, what we are running from, what self-destructive enemies lie within us, and what wild and wonderful dreams we hold in our hearts.