Quotes about Intimacy

If you could be a fly on the wall of my office the numerous times I counsel married couples, you would hear the same word I hear over and over and over again: Trapped. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to help married couples not feel so trapped. One husband came to me after only six months of marriage, already saying he felt trapped and wanted out.

the Judas spirit always want intimacy without covenant!

We live in a culture that desires intimacy without responsibility and pleasure without commitment.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.