It was, then, in terms of personal contact, a tenuous relationship, and yet through the diaries I, at least, acquired a sense of shared intimacy with Simon Gray.
As to labor pain, both the shared intimacy with the mother and the emotional background during confinement may create mutual solicitude among the protagonists (i.e. midwifes, father, mother).
While feeling embarrassment, humiliation and shame because of her fear and pain which leads to an inability to share intimacy with her partner, the partners in turn often end up feeling dejected all of which have profound effects on the relationship.
Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another -- this takes time.
Women tend to smoke for somewhat different reasons than men: as a coping strategy for feelings of stress and lack of control over their lives, as part of a daily routine to take a break from caregiving and other work, as time to share intimacies with partners or friends, or to "distance and defuse relationships" and control negative emotions.
Scatter My Ashes deals wonderfully with that personal connection, as the film is presented as a shared intimacy.
Or lean forward in shared intimacy.
Reasonable people rely on the performance of roles and social contracts underwritten by trust to share intimacy or privacy – a child with an adult, a young woman on a date, a senior citizen allowing someone into their home and, yes, an actor performing in a gallery.
I have watched as my Congo sisters have grown bolder, connecting with each other -- sharing intimacies, sharing visions for a way forward.
"When a patient shares intimacies with you and you examine them in a manner that no one else does, you'd better look like a physician — not a guy who works at Starbuck's".
The idea of living with him, and of intimacy with him, is horrifying.
