Are you intimate with many people?

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How many people are you intimate with?

Intimacy generally refers to the feeling of being in a close personal association and belonging together. It is a familiar and very close affective connection with another as a result of a bond that is formed through knowledge and experience of the other. Genuine intimacy in human relationships requires dialogue, transparency, vulnerability, and reciprocity. The verb "intimate" means "to state or make known".

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Two humans (in different ways) and one horse

My husband, my dog, and my cat. But eventho I love my husband, I still need some alone time, my own space, doing my own thing.

Three: wife, son, daughter.

That's it.

By that deffinition,the only person I'm "intimate" with is one of my sisters.

husband, one sister, a couple friends.

Two:my Girlfriend and my best lady friend
and my family of course

Gosh... I don't dialogue with anyone... ever since my kids reached 15 or 16. No one's life is transparent to me... nor is my life open and transparent to anyone ever. No one is keeping up with me, nor am I keeping up with anyone. I have never had intimate relationships like that. My phone doesn't ring with friends asking questions about my daily dramas, or for opinions about choices they have. Small talk about personal little preferences, interests, hopes... never happened.

Not sure anyone, really.

two rabbits,two cats,and a gaggle of histrionic chickens hand reared by self.

No one.

At this point in my life, no humans at all. I have a long-distant friend from before I made a huge relocation, and I keep in touch via e-mail -- she's the only person I tell really personal things to and she is caring and understanding. But I know she doesn't see me as quite such a close friend as I see her, and she has truly "intimate" bonds with the friends she's had for a longer time who are still living where she is.

So it's not really a mutual friendship, if I'm honest. I know she cares a lot for me but I lean on her emotionally more than she leans on me because her support is from her immediate circle of friends. I don't have one of those.

My greatest and truest intimacy now is with animals -- a cat, and, hard as it is to believe, a small handful of wild swans and geese who have bonded to me.

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One house plant, a closet of compost worms, and a cello. It's not unusual for my phone not to ring for weeks, discounting advertisers.

Just to help you not idealise my situation ...

It is my 2nd marriage. The 1st one ended after years of issues, one of the things my ex accused me of was of being cold (note that I am not talking about sex here), never hugging or touching him, being in my own world, etc. And the last years he had become violent and I had to actually escape him, leaving everything behind (all I kept were a few things in a garbage bag).

And my present marriage is not perfect either, there different issues (and it would take too long to enumerate everything), and similar issues.

And I haven't had an actual friend since age 15 or so.

I can't imagine my life without a dog and a cat tho, or at least one of them (if it was ever impossible for me to have both because of apartment rules or something like that).

People who are able to live by themselves (either because they choose to or because they have to) amaze me, in a good way, because I have never done that, and I don't even know if I would be able to. I am like a child in some ways.

I don't understand how some people can't make friends,
yet they are able to get a relationship.I have friends
and associates of both gender,yet I've seen friendless
loners get dates/sex/relationship like nothing.
doesn't make sense to me.

I have both friends and relationship.

Not anyone real but I'm quite intimate with my voices and imaginary entities Gwydion and Rhoslyn.