[Quix]

Sounds like a winning relationship to me.

Many people are not REALLY prepared to pay the price for such intimacy--the price in putting the other person first.

And a lot of them are skillful at blaming the other person.

All of us are designed to need, maybe even crave such intimacy. But fears, unhealed historic hurts etc. give us reflexes and aversions to the necessary components of such intimacy.

Too few realize that giving ourselves away freely is the greatest way, generally, to receive more than we can contain.

[Quilla]

Too few realize that giving ourselves away freely is the greatest way, generally, to receive more than we can contain.

Beautifully put.

[bootless]

Too few realize that giving ourselves away freely is the greatest way, generally, to receive more than we can contain.

Wow. That sentence is a keeper ... as is anyone who can do that. I believe in that kind of giving wholeheartedly.