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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Jennifer Finlayson Fife Podcast Archive, where you have access to all the amazing |
| 0:06.5 | insights Dr. Finlayson Fife has shared through hundreds of interviews. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Mackenzie, Dr. Finlason Fife's assistant, and we are so glad that you're here. |
| 0:18.9 | The podcast you'll be listening to today was originally published and produced by From the Mouth of Babes and is titled |
| 0:26.2 | Let's Get Intimate. We hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 0:36.8 | Well thank you so much Jennifer, for joining us on our podcast. We're super excited to dive into this conversation about intimacy today. |
| 0:41.6 | Great. |
| 0:43.0 | So I have listened to several of your other podcasts and things and you've been quoted as saying |
| 0:49.8 | intimacy is the willingness to know and be knowable. |
| 0:53.3 | And most of us are terrified of that. |
| 0:55.8 | So first, can you define what emotional intimacy is |
| 1:00.5 | and why it might be terrifying for someone to be emotionally intimate. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, well I think a lot of us sort of claim that we want an intimate partnership, |
| 1:11.6 | that we want, you know, a close partnership. But I think what a lot of us |
| 1:17.1 | instinctively desire is someone that's close to us that approves of us and that thinks were wonderful and sees all the best |
| 1:26.0 | parts of us. |
| 1:28.0 | And of course the challenge of getting married and moving beyond the kind of initial part of any relationship is that they start |
| 1:37.4 | to know not just the good parts of you but the undeveloped and darker parts of you. And so if you really want an intimate |
| 1:46.8 | partnership, well it takes a tremendous amount of courage because it means |
| 1:51.0 | you're willing to let someone really know you bad parts, undeveloped |
| 1:57.8 | parts along with the good parts. |
| 1:59.8 | And that takes a lot more courage. |
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