With Valentines day just around the corner, love is on many peoples minds. Closely connected with love is intimacy, both nonsexual as well as sexual intimacy. Relationships are built or broken based upon several key ingredients that either build bonds or obliterate them. For a relationship to be healthy, it is critically important to build a foundation consisting of communication, which enables us to understand each others wants and needs, as well as conveying our own wants and needs to our partner. With proper communication in which our values are understood and mutually respected, we are better able to be understanding, which in turn leads to trust, that brings us closer to the person we love. If we learn to respect our partners values, we are naturally drawn closer to each other. In addition to these ingredients, if we are attracted to our partner, we are well on our way toward being intimate with each other. Intimacy that begins with kissing, softly touching each other, and other non sexual communication and contact, will likely progress to the sexual expression of intimacy. It is however extremely important to construct a foundation that is based upon honesty, respect, and trust, along with compatibility, if the relationship is to grow, and ideally, flourish. As we all have different requirements, and needs, finding balance is the greatest key to reaching our relationship goals. We all attach different levels of importance to sex, and our sexual requirements vary widely, as do our requirements for all of the other components of a healthy and happy relationship. If we are willing to occasionally compromise, we are more likely to develop balance in our relationship, which increases the likelihood of having a happy, satisfying, and enduring connection with our partner.
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