Turning Point Therapy

Barriers To Intimacy

Lack of Self-Knowledge

The deeper we know our self the more fully we can be present with others and consciously share our experience. The less you know the more difficult it becomes to communicate your feelings and desires effectively to your partner.  Deep intimacy requires both partners to communicate in an open and honest way, to say what you cannot to anyone else.  Intimate communication involves speaking about the effect we have on one other, both our delight in them, and our resentments and disappointments.  The less we know about our self and the less comfort we have in focusing on our internal and felt experience, the more tendency we will have in interactions to focus on the other and assign blame.

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