The Old Way Of Thinking
Before recovery, intimacy typically just meant anything that had to do with a physical or sexual aspect of a relationship that I was in at the time. I think you get it. After some time in recovery though, intimacy really turned into something else and the value of intimacy changed even more for me.
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My Definition
The Journey
All of this can obviously look different for each individual and nobody has to be in recovery to experience intimacy the way that I am describing it. I am just expressing that I feel like recovery taught me how to be intimate in a very different way than how I perceived the definition before recovery. Being able to talk or listen to someone and have it bring about a personal connection that is much deeper than most other conversations is an amazing byproduct of recovery and that is what intimacy really feels like to me.