Roads That Move Away from Intimacy
All of us yearn for close loving relationships, but when a deeper commitment is demanded, we often retreat from self-disclosure by developing negative patterns that avoid intimacy.
- Aloofness (“I don’t care” attitude)
- Anger
- Apathy
- Busyness
- Defensiveness
- Depression
- Dishonesty
- Distrust
- Faultfinding
- Frequent Absence
- Guilt
- Restlessness
- Sarcasm
- Sending Mixed Messages
- Substituting Sex for Intimacy
- Workaholism
Intimacy: Learning the Language of Love.
June Hunt
www.shannonbattle.com