Intimacy Anxiety Quotes

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things?

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

At any age, we struggle with intimacy. When you're a kid, you think, 'I won't have that problem. I'll have sex whenever I want when I'm a grown-up!' And then, somehow, it doesn't quite turn out that way, and it's so surprising to people that connection remains so challenging even when you're married.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.