This transcript will discuss the different types of intimacy. Hopefully, some of these comments will assist you in answering some of your own questions about intimacy. Intimacy is a process, something that takes place over time, and is not stagnant. In fact, any kind of stagnation in a relationship may kill intimacy.
Intimacy can take many forms.
If they can do this in a open and comfortable way, they may become quite intimate in an intellectual area. An example of this is when people get together to actively be with each other, yet say very little to each other, not sharing any thoughts or many feelings, but being involved in mutual activity with one another. They may be reading different books and not even realize that they are engaged in an intimate activity with one another and, yet from the experiential point of view, they were intimately involved. They are really trying to be aware of and understand the other person's emotional side. This is the stereotypical definition of intimacy that most people are familiar with.