Intimate Communication

i do group coaching sometimes, and somebody was asking about the question of, how, what does it even mean to be intimate? And she's somebody who wants high levels of control. So i would say she doesn't want intimacy. She wants control, control. H so a lot of us use the framing of intimate communication to keep control of our partner much more than we're using it to reveal who we really are. I'm not speaking against human beings. I'm talking about our own inclinations to do ego reinforcing things that aren't particularly loving. Even needing to be needed is a ego reinforcing behavior that isn't necessarily about loving other people. It's about demanding love in a sens