Relationships • Compatibility

On the Fear of Intimacy

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Nowadays we’re pretty tough on people who have a certain type of fear: people who are afraid of getting close, people who have to sit alone for quite a long time every day, people who don’t always find it easy to say what’s on their minds. But these people deserve sympathy and understanding, not criticism.

 

 

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