The problem with the world today is the lack of intimacy separate from sexual activity. I have found that intimacy is a precursor of values including: compassion, empathy, and love.
My clients compensate me exceedingly because I am able to understand them, engage, commit, and connect.
People are in relationships with others, and feel intimacy must lead to sex. Let us not forget the purpose of sex is creation. These days most are just skipping straight to sex. I may have been found guilty in my past as well. However, this is why I can make this testament from a place of truth.
Intimacy is defined as a “close familiarity or friendship; closeness” by Dictionary.com.
I was watching a random sitcom earlier today, and a guy “asked a girl out.” I stopped and thought to myself, “Aw yes! That’s right, our first goals of love when we where young was to get “asked out.”
Taken literally, we wanted someone to commit to us, and go out into society (or public) along with us. However, there are a lot of heterosexual couples in the closet these days as well. Guilt, shame, self-piety; I’ll touch more on this later.
Furthermore, this going out as a couple (if successful) leads to an engagement. Where the couple realized that they no longer desire to “go out” with anyone else, and are seeking to fully commit to each other forever by way of marriage.
All the while, there is a lot of observing and reasoning regarding the other’s behavior along this process.
First off, I don’t want to accept an offer to “go out” with someone that I know would bring guilt or shame to my livelihood. (Been there and done it. It sucks!) However, in the closet exists fornication and intimacy. Interestingly enough, in the absence of the fornication we usually realize we in fact “wouldn’t” want to “go out” with that certain person.
Understanding the process of finding lifelong love allows us to check our motives. My motive as a massage therapist are to build a level of intimacy, a relationship, with my clients that allows them to escape the worries of their natural life.
I simply desire to be a extraordinary therapist that guides people to a place of supernatural healing. Anyone can do this. All it takes is a genuine hug with the correct motives.
If we could stop skipping the steps, we could find ourselves in a more loving world, Lil Wayne wouldn’t need to teach us “How to Love”, and ignorant men would stop asking me for happy endings!
“Also, If some of us established more non-sexual intimate relationships, when the time for engaging comes along we’d have more of a selection to choose from.” – Sherleta Rochelle
Alas, it has been written! 😀