Her countrymen, Mazaurette told Maureen O'Connor, "don't connect sex with ethics or morality or values in general," and apparently bang without necessarily attaching intimacy to the experience.
For Montaigne, as for ourselves, the language of emotion is couched in a language of spatial intimacy: we feel "close to", "attached to" and "touched" by others – as Montaigne shows in his essay "Of Friendship", dedicated to the memory of his close friend Etienne de La Boétie.
Janna Malamud Smith conjures a cherishable intimacy: "My father and I were intensely attached, at ease with each other, deeply compatible".
Lipsky was too lingeringly attached to the period of intimacy — of having momentarily befriended Wallace — to attain the necessary detachment to reshape that experience into a story.
They moved with the familiarity of instinct, and when they rolled over, still attached, it reminded Nana of her dogs at play, harmonious intimacy.
But perhaps there's an alternative: human meets smart bot; human grows attached to bot; human experiences genuine emotional intimacy with bot; human loves bot.
Bowlby (1969) highlighted that children's attachment styles are an important determinant of their future as well as current social relations: with children who are safely attached developing relationships based on trust and intimacy, and positive perceptions of themselves and others.
At times, Moorehead's fulsome praise for the "friendship between women, and the importance that they attach to intimacy and to looking after each other," can sound overwrought — especially given that one of the surviving Frenchwomen, Cécile Charua, specifies to Moorehead that the group's bond "wasn't so much friendship as solidarity".
But having attached herself to Maud for the sake of the money, Sue finds herself drawn into an unexpected and fearful intimacy.
