You'll do fine without it. Intimacy refers to communicating our most private or personal thoughts and feelings , a total life sharing. To know someone intimately is to know that person totally. More than 80 percent of her respondents said they would prefer the meaningful conversation.
Intimacy is scary.
I have a natural tendency to shy away from it. And you're probably afraid of it too. That's a problem. Intimacy with another person also carries the fear of rejection and the subsequent pain when we are rejected. And we remember what it feels like.