Guarding the Gates of Closeness — How Intimacy and Honesty Wage Battle in Our Romantic Relationships

To be connected as closely as possible, we need to reveal the good, the embarrassingly bad, and even what we insecurely believe is the ugly. But we fight hard against showing up as our genuine, imperfect selves.

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By Dr T J Jordan