Failure to Communicate
There really cannot be intimacy without communication—a sharing on both verbal and nonverbal levels. One partner may actually attempt to keep the relationship superficial, because he or she is afraid of intimacy, afraid of closeness developing.
Most people, however, can learn to communicate with practice, if they really want to. Communication requires a listening love, as well as a willingness to be vulnerable—to try to put into words what one is feeling and trust those words to the partner’s understanding.
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To Ed Wheat Sr. and Gladys Gibson Wheat, whose commitment, devotion, warmth, generosity, and integrity stood for fifty years as a beautiful picture of genuine agape love.