How To Build An Emotionally Intimate Relationship
Strategies For Deeper Connection
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Emotional intimacy is one of the most foundational underpinnings of a lasting, loving relationship. It functions like glue, bonding you and your partner together, keeping you committed through hard times, drawing you toward each other instead of apart.
But although we need emotional intimacy for healthy, satisfying relationships, we don't always know how to build it. A lot of the instinctive ways we protect ourselves work directly against intimacy. That's because emotional intimacy is inherently, definitionally vulnerable. Plus, if you haven't ever witnessed an emotionally intimate relationship up close, you may just not know what it looks like or how to develop it!
Today, I'm breaking down the buzz word of emotional intimacy and walking you through 7 strategies to increase emotional intimacy in your relationship.
If you long for a close, connected relationship but don't always know how to get there, this one is for you.