1. Constant Companionship
It’s always nice to just be around the person you love. You know that you never HAVE to go through anything alone in your life anymore. If there’s a certain concert that you want to attend, you have an automatic date. If you have a country that you want to visit, you have an automatic travel buddy. If you want to go see a movie, then you have someone to go watch it with you. That’s just how relationships work. You are always going to have someone at your side whenever you want or need them to be. There’s always a certain kind of comfort attached to knowing that you have someone to be there for you on a consistent basis.
2. Emotional Openness
Yes, sex is great. Actually, it’s the pinnacle of physical intimacy for a lot of people. However, it’s not the only form of intimacy out there. Remember that there is also such a thing as emotional intimacy. And you always have to be building the intimacy in your relationship in all aspects of it. What can be more emotionally intimate than actually opening up to your partner about your feelings and emotions? What can be more intimate than baring your soul to your partner in your relationship? There’s always a certain closeness that you can build with an emotional openness that physical intimacy can’t reach on its own.
3. Conflict Resolution
A lot of people fall into the trap of thinking that conflicts and disagreements are always going to be bad for relationships. And that isn’t necessarily going to be right. In fact, there are so many couples that get closer to each other and become more intimate after experiencing a setback or a trial. When two people disagree, it isn’t a problem if they are both able to work through their disagreements and come to a compromise. If you are able to work through your worries together, you establish a sense of teamwork and camaraderie that is good for your relationship.
4. Partnership
You really need to act like true partners as you face the troubles of the world together. You need to ALWAYS be acting in accordance with one another. You need to be acting like a team. Otherwise, you’re not going to be able to overcome your problems at all. But if you act like one unit; if you act like a singular force, then you become stronger as a couple.
5. Traveling
Whenever you travel as a couple, it can be a very liberating and intimate experience for the two of you. There is a certain intimacy that just comes with the two of you being in a foreign land surrounded by a sea of people you don’t even know. When you travel together, you are both forced outside of your comfort zones. You are both forced to confront unfamiliar terrains and different cultures. You are forced to confront deep and intimate parts of yourselves so that you are able to face the unfamiliarity of the world around you. In a way, being immersed in a foreign culture forces you to look deep down into what makes you who you are – both as an individual and as a couple.
6. Physical Nakedness
This is a form of physical intimacy that can be just as intimate – if not more than – as having sex. When you let yourself become physically naked in front of another person, you are giving a lot of trust to another person. You are really allowing yourself to become more vulnerable. You are putting the entirety of yourself on display for another individual. You are letting everything be shown – including your flaws and imperfections. And when you are able to reveal yourself like that to another human being, you are seriously building on your connection. You are establishing a sense of trust with each other.
7. Physical Closeness
You don’t have to be having sex to be physically intimate with one another. Sometimes, just spending time with each other and being within one another’s immediate physical vicinity is enough to build intimacy between the both of you.
8. Planning
There is always a certain intimacy that comes with being able to look towards the future with someone. There is always a certain closeness that comes with being able to face the future with someone at your side. And that’s something that the two of you need to do in your relationship. You need to be able to look towards the future as a couple. You need to know that if your relationship is ever going to last, you need to be able to plan for whatever comes your way. You need to prepare for the lives that you are going to share together. You can’t afford to wing it. You need to brace yourselves for the challenges that are laid out in front of you.
