Tag Archives: intimacy
What’s intimacy?
Emotional – expressing significant feelings. Experiential – an open attitude to experience things with another person. Intellectual – feeling comfortable to express one’s opinion, ideas and thoughts with someone else. Sexual – genuine physical closeness with another.
Rediscovery
How did you and your partner stay romantically connected during the postpartum period? Tell us the playful, creative ways you showed love and intimacy when sex wasn’t always an option. Here’s what some of you had to say. Date nights … Continue reading
Sexual Health and Intimacy
The S.T.A.R.S Framework for conversations around sexual health and intimacy: Sexual health: For example, when were you last tested for STIs? Which STIs were you tested for? Have you tested positive for one? Turn-ons: What are you into sexually? What … Continue reading
Meet Your Mom at the Airport !
My nephew recently reported that no, he wouldn’t pick up his 77-year-old mother from the airport. “Besides,” he said, “It’s easier to get a taxi, Uber or Lyft.” To that remark, I say: “Easier for whom?” Visiting your loved ones … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 
A Type of Second Sight
Before my divorce, I took lots of selfies and posted them on Facebook. I read the comments greedily: “Beautiful family,” “looking great.” We must be OK, I reassured myself, if people see us that way. What an astonishment to fall … Continue reading →