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The Relational Self and Authentic Desire {with Khuyen Kasper Bui}

Relating to Self

CHAPTER

The Blurring Boundaries Between Self and Other

"I can see that field of tension between wanting to be a clear self and individual and then the lack of intimacy. I think where I don't agree with what something you said is that intimacy implies losing oneself from my perspective," she says. "True intimacy can only exist if both people involved have very clear sense of boundaries and are not taking responsibility for the feelings of the other" 'The kind of intimacy that is losing oneself yeah kind of like toxic codependency in my mind now because I've explained these things right yes', he adds. "'There's no beauty without experience,' we say, and that that inherent re inherent being together in in this reality is what we call relational

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