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* can play a vital role in improving health.
* have an impact on the amounts and types of household products produced.

Intimacy
* All intimacy depends upon noticing and responding to another.
* appears to be a skill that can be learned.
* can also take many forms
  - bring complex and intense emotions into play
* causes affection.
* describes the remoteness or intimacy of the space.
* evolves over time.
* grows out of trust and trust depends on mutual honesty and responsibility.
* includes verbal and physical closeness.
* involves clear and direct communication of our intent in the relationship
  - emotional bondedness and connection
* is able to boost self-esteem and add meaning to life.
* is about being close
  - connecting with another person
  - more than sex, or even touching
  - sharing each moment
* is an enduring relationship between whole people
  - expression of that involvement, that closeness
  - important part of our marital relations
  - based on a feeling of fairness and consideration
  - dependent on strength to become vulnerable
  - emotional connection
  - essential to peace of mind
  - experiential in nature
  - for moments of ministry, moments of connecting and moments of sharing
  - freedom from anxiety in presence of vulnerability
  - friendliness
  - knowledge of another person
  - linked with real love
* is located in families
  - marriages
  - love grown up
* is marked by LONG friendship, or it's developed through LONG association
  - a very close association, contact, or familiarity
* is more than an act of biological mating
  - sexuality
  - of a very personal or private nature
  - one of the goods internal to it
  - something that needs to be cultivated, nurtured, and grown
* is that deep, satisfying sense of knowing and being known
  - space wherein our bodies, minds, hearts and soul are safe
  - which is most personal
* is the deep experience of self in relation to a partner
  - giving and receiving of love and affection
  - opposite of isolation
  - radical knowledge of a person
  - result of the bonding of hearts, the meeting of minds and the communion of souls
  - spiritual key to spiritually ground, meaningful sexual relationships
  - way two people weave oneness into their relationship
* is to occur within the bonds of marriage
  - relationships what reporting is to journalism
  - what distinguishes our friends from our lovers
* leads to the verbal writing of our life histories on one another.
* makes people feel too much and become uncomfortable.
* matter of one person being moved by another.
* means closeness, connectedness, warmth, and bondedness
  - different things to different people
  - love, affection and sharing
* mutual feeling that grows through the sharing of emotions.
* occurs when our hearts, souls and bodies become one.
* problem partly because it's difficult to know how to meet our mate's needs.
* refers to tender feelings one person has for an equal.
* relies on breaching privacy and other social inhibitions.
* requires being genuine and sincere with people
  - both people's care and attention
* requires vulnerability, and vulnerability carries with it the possibility of being hurt
  - on the part of each person in the relationship
* sets the stage for risking exposure and nakedness.
* takes place when truth meets truth
  - time and trust, and develops from shared experiences
* terrifies most men because in a man's mind, to be intimate is to reveal weakness.
* thrives only when both partners know what is going on in each other's lives.
* willingness to know and be known by others.
* word that describes our company well.