Intimate passionate love has been the undying quest of human beings in western cultures and immortalised in movies, literature and the arts. The desire to be intimately related to another to whom one feels cherished, precious and unconditionally accepted and understood is at the heart of the dream. Once found we wake to the realities of intimacy with all the passion and pain of living in an intimate relationship. It becomes a furnace for the burnishing
of our minds and hearts evoking both aversion and desire, longing and avoidance, warmth and coldness,
intimacy and...