oaluz:

Ways of being intimate:

• Sharing our feelings with our words: our fears, joys, struggles; the good stuff, the bad stuff, the easier stuff and the hard stuff (intimacy more often develops from sharing the things that aren’t so easy).
• Sharing our thoughts, dreams, goals or ideas.
• Sharing touch or other ways of physically connecting, be that touch we and others consider and experience as sex, or touch we and others don’t consider or experience as sexual. Just letting someone into our physical space bubble is often an intimacy.
• Showing someone a part of ourselves – be it a body part, or a part of our life history – we do not feel proud of or think is awesome, so they can know more of us, not just “the good parts” that impress them.
• Letting someone into something we consider a more private or sacred experience, like taking a hike in our own secretly-discovered place, practicing an instrument the way we would alone with someone else in the room, meditating or praying together, or letting someone see us in our Yummy Sushi pajamas.
• Sharing things we consider very meaningful and valuable: like a song that makes us weep because it really hits home, a childhood toy, a journal or lending out our prized lucky socks that seem to assure we pass every test.
• Delegating or sharing responsibility, especially with something greatly cherished and valued, like letting someone care for your child or pet, or doing a joint project with someone about something you really care about.
• Doing something in front of someone else we usually only do alone because we feel embarrassed about it otherwise, like going to the bathroom, dancing like a fool in our underpants in a way no one in their right mind would find hot.
• Telling someone things about ourselves or our lives we don’t feel so secure in; showing someone our fumbles, faults or flaws.
• Voicing something in the interest of getting closer, better understanding each other, or repairing something broken in our relationship, but which we know will be hard for that person to hear, and be something we will need to put in effort to work through for a while.
• Helping someone, being helped ourselves or asking for help.
  

From here

(via gothchcken)

slimetony:

*doing a tarot card reading* uh oh… this guy has a sword… better watch out for that…

(Source: slimetony, via aphrican-aphrodite)