Few of us receive the information and support to help us develop and maintain healthy, close
and satisfying intimate relationships. Fulfilling relationships are the foundation of our
emotional and physical health and unfulfilling relationships can become the root cause of our
unhappiness and increased stress Education, training and coaching are expected aspects
of our lives except to improve or enhance our relationships.
If you are looking for feedback, communication skills, self-understanding. Intimacy is the
ability to trust and feel vulnerable with another…to rely on through good times and bad for
advice and support. Intimacy is achieved though friendships, family relationships,
partnerships. If intimate relationships are so satisfying and fulfilling, why do we have such
difficulty achieving and maintaining them? Our first intimate relationships occur with our
parents. As we mature, we often find ourselves in relationships that remind us of some traits
of our parents and often become surprised and frustrated when these relationships begin
evidencing negative traits that we didn’t expect.
You may be interested in a tool designed to shed light on what kind of relationship difficulties
you have, and where they fit in the broad range of problems couples often face. If so, go to:
Terry Real's Relationship Inventory