Intimacy Is Feeling Safe in Your Weirdness

“You can be weird, messy, honest, raw—and I won’t run. I’ll stay. And I’ll honor your trust in me.” Folks are mighty fond of dressing up love in lace and moonlight, but I’ll tell you—real closeness, the kind that sticks through storms and silence, ain’t always pretty. Sometimes it looks like two oddballs sitting in their pajamas at 2am arguing about the best kind of peanut butter. Sometimes it’s just being strange together, and not having to apologize for it. That’s intimacy. And it’s worth more than a hundred roses and a rooftop dinner. So if you stumble across … Continue readingIntimacy Is Feeling Safe in Your Weirdness