Conclusion
“It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” Love and hurts are intertwined, we only hurt and are hurt by those we love because they are important to us and what they say and do becomes an indication of our and their importance. A specific and concrete definition of intimacy defined as sharing of joys, hurts, and fears of being hurt has been productive, if not successful, in creating distance programmed writing, i.e., workbooks, with f2f approaches to improve intimacy. How we deal with (approach, face, confront, access, process, and express) hurt feelings in the self determines a great deal how we relate in intimate as well as in nonintimate relationships.
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(2005). Intimacy: Sharing Hurts and Fears of Being Hurt. In: Personality in Intimate Relationships. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22607-9_16
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