Without this identity, there is no whole person to offer to another, no whole person to accept the gift of intimacy from another. Becoming intimate with others requires us to develop a repertoire of relationship skills based upon our identity and role. Intimacy expands and deepens within marriage and the family more than any other relationship. Intimacy is an enduring relationship between whole people. It includes communion with one's innermost self and union with others in social-emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual ways.
Intimate relationships are deeply and profoundly nourishing.
Intimacy is possible because of our total relationship skills, not as the result of a sex drive. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading. We go to the temple to make the covenants, but we go home to keep those covenants. There would be less of absence of love in their relationships.