Intimacy or Building Emotional Walls

“The more you lower your emotional walls around people, the more they will respond with deep emotional intimacy” - Kristina Richardson

Certain people have barriers that prevent them from entering into a close relationship with others. Fear of intimacy includes fear of commitment and social phobia. When a person is close to another person, they may think: what will happen if this relationship doesn't work out? If we get too close to one another, is there a way to escape?

Fear of intimacy is the most common human fear. We live in an age of hyperconnectivity, and yet we feel less connected than ever before. We fear intimacy with people for many reasons: we worry that we will be rejected, and we become frustrated when it takes too long to get what we want from them. To overcome this fear of intimacy, we should look into why we feel this way, and that requires taking further steps. Throughout life, everyone wants to be connected and to have quality relationships with people.

However, the line between satisfaction and dissatisfaction in this world is thin, which often causes an individual to have unrealistic fears and beliefs, because of which they act or behave as though this paradigm is true. These fears make people afraid of relationships and reject close emotional closeness with other people or with themselves.

We need to develop the belief that everyone has such fears.

Recognize that confronting your fears will help not only you, but also other people in your life.