Good self-love is vital for intimacy. For one thing, to be noted, if you cannot befriend yourself, warts and all, then how can you possible expect to befriend you.

 Good self-love is vital for intimacy. For one thing, to be noted, if you cannot befriend yourself, warts and all, then how can you possible expect to befriend anyone else, warts and all. After all, you are closer to yourself than anyone else. I remember myself as a teenager feeling anxious when meeting new people. Looking back, I can see now that the difficulty wasn't the new people. It was more that I was a stranger to myself.

Related articles

• How I used sex to avoid intimacy
• Addiction is an intimacy disorder.
• RELATIONSHIP DEPENDENCY is nothing but a misguided dependency on others in an attempt to fulfill unmet developmental needs.
• Obsessive, dependent, erotic romance often is a misplaced attempt to achieve that fusion we so deeply desire.
• Relationship dependents have to dance a tightrope of pursuing partners, but never really catching them, or distancing themselves, but never really leaving.
• As addicts we are most committed to escaping reality.
• Influences of 50 Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Of Grey Dangerous or Exciting
• Romance Addiction refers to those experiences when the object of love is also a romantic object.
• Relationship Dependency, by definition, means making the relationship more important to you than you are to yourself