But with cabinet ministers, Labour MPs and Lib Dem activists all warning against excess Lib-Lab intimacy, that may prove a forlorn hope.
It's an excellent wee theatre, Milton Keynes, and not just because the authorities there are civilised enough to allow you to imbibe; a 1400-seater auditorium with a pit big enough to take a large orchestra (Welsh National Opera have toured Wozzeck here in the past), but with a Glyndebourne-esque sense of intimacy and immediacy.
She is fascinated by the intimacy and frailty of human relations, and tries not to categorise or define those experiences.
Blair told Leveson he and Rupert Murdoch had just such a relationship while he was PM, but that once he left office it suddenly blossomed into intimacy.
You're Not Alone tackles his sense of isolation and problems with intimacy.
I'm not saying that similar kinds of intimacy can't be achieved in monogamous relationships; just that lots of poly people find the emphasis on honest, non-judgmental emotional communication a marked change from their previous experiences.
The sudden and unexpected failure of the body is a shocking catastrophe that threatens the flimsy edifice we call the "self", with a corresponding strain on intimacy.
I am still in awe of the Edinburgh Book festival, even after all these years, because without losing any of its intimacy, without seeming too commercial or, I might say, "over organised" it has grown and grown and is the biggest, best-known celebration of books in the world, and yet it still fits within the wrought iron fencing.
I like the intimacy of Broadstairs, the brashness of Scarborough - but for the perfect all-round charming resort, Tenby has to be firmly placed at the top of my list.
That intimacy ended after the tripartite model of economic management – government, business and unions – fatally hit the buffers in the winter of discontent (the piles of rubbish much exaggerated in The Iron Lady movie) and led to the Thatcher counter-revolution of 1979, which culminated in the defeat of Arthur Scargill's foolhardy strategy for the 1983-84 minerstrikeike.
Few people who know us as a couple realise that, for most of our long marriage, we have had no intimacy whatsoever; we have slept apart and existed apart for most of those years.
