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Topic: Can a relationship last if there's no intimacy?
MirrorMirror's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:07 PM
flowerforyou Can a relationship last if there's no intimacy?flowerforyou

JustAGuy2112's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:08 PM
Only as a friendship.

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Sun 12/28/08 07:08 PM
Not for me.

GuitarManager's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:08 PM
No.

dolphin14's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:09 PM
not for me, but i know couples that may have sex once a year and they are happy. I don't get it but hey different strokes for different folks

Ruth34611's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:10 PM
Not unless there was some catastophic reason for the lack of intimacy such as major illness or injury.

misstina2's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:11 PM
it can if you choose to deal with that

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Sun 12/28/08 07:12 PM
if you lose intimacy in a relationship, I say you better check what really went wrong!

Rockmaple's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:13 PM
A relationship can only starts with a bit of intimacy and is based on intimacy. It depends on the depth or level of intimacy that is lacking.

Redshirt's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:13 PM
Take you are talking about physical intimacy.

Think it depends upon the people.

If that is the only thing the relationship is based upon...then no.

If it is based upon emotional intimacy...then yes.

Totage's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:14 PM

flowerforyou Can a relationship last if there's no intimacy?flowerforyou


Yes, a business relationship, friendship, etc.

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Sun 12/28/08 07:18 PM

Take you are talking about physical intimacy.

Think it depends upon the people.

If that is the only thing the relationship is based upon...then no.

If it is based upon emotional intimacy...then yes.


I was going to say, as much as I love the sexual intimacy of a relationship, it's the emotional intimacy that makes or breaks a relationship, not sex. Lack of sexual intimacy, except for medical or physiological reasons, usual is a result of the lack of emotional intimacy one feels with a mate, not the other way around.

AndyBgood's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:19 PM
It totally depends relationship to relationship.
Some women in my past I have had a relationship I parted ways with once in for all while a few are still my friends platonicly. It all depends on how you come into the relationship and how you go out.
If it ends badly chances are it is better to keep your distance. If the two of you just walk away together and you don't have your emotions driving you insane why destroy a perfectly good friendship?
I got plenty of female friends who are just that, friends. There is no shame in being friends! The shame is if you do not get along at all any more but then again such is life. You just cannot have everything you want.
Right now I want a cookie but I am all out.

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Chocolate Chip with walnuts....
Hot Chocolate..............

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PacificStar48's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:19 PM
I would think liveing without either mental or physical intimacy would be a very empty relationship and would eventually wither and die.

SitkaRains's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:20 PM
Edited by SitkaRains on Sun 12/28/08 07:40 PM

flowerforyou Can a relationship last if there's no intimacy?flowerforyou

No I believe a lot of people think Intimacy has to be sexual of some sort. I believe All Relationships have to have some form of intimacy to survive.

Edited to add
I like to think if Intimacy as this

In to me U See..

Ruth34611's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:21 PM


I was going to say, as much as I love the sexual intimacy of a relationship, it's the emotional intimacy that makes or breaks a relationship, not sex. Lack of sexual intimacy, except for medical or physiological reasons, usual is a result of the lack of emotional intimacy one feels with a mate, not the other way around.


Exactly. You're not going to have a sudden loss of physical intimacy without the loss of emotional intimacy first.

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Sun 12/28/08 07:21 PM
If both partners are satisfied it can.

livelife68's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:22 PM

flowerforyou Can a relationship last if there's no intimacy?flowerforyou


Not for me...there needs to be physical, mental, emotional intamacy.

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Sun 12/28/08 07:22 PM

flowerforyou Can a relationship last if there's no intimacy?flowerforyou




NO

ledi180's photo
Sun 12/28/08 07:23 PM
I guess, but I wouldn't wanna be part of it.

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