This is http://www.essayz.com/a9609042.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %FALLING LOVE INTIMACY SEXUAL TOGETHER UNION 960904 The process of truly falling in love and moving toward healthy increasing levels of intimacy and sexual togetherness is: 1. One of growing mutual trust in each other's being reliably: gentle, kind, compassionate, sympathetic, present, thoughtful, generous, supportive, cooperative, honest, helpful, etc. 2. One of increasing willingness to engage in mutual self disclosure in light of all of the above---and finding pleasure therein. 3. One of an increasing sense of sharing power in balanced ways. 4. One characterized by giving and accepting gifts of the freedom to be safely venerable. - - - and so - - - 5. Not a technical procedure which can be prescribed in advance as a means to achieving a specific anticipated or planned goal. 6. Not the same for each person therein involved. 7. Not promoted by demands, coercion, or violence. 8. Not characterized by preoccupations with issues of: control, ownership, exclusivity, duties, blame, fault, imperfections, fixes, etc. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================